that tiny pebble has extracted itself from the
concrete sidewalk enroute to the street

that huge boulder sits calmly in a riverbed
awaiting a really big storm or flood to journey one

that cascade of gravel down the hillside onto and beyond
the highway is a novel way of signaling a need for a ride

these shiny smooth lumps of granite shaped by eons of
plunging water are resitng riverside as though catching
their breath befrore the next adventure

those fragments of quartz hold safe the golden dust,
cave wall vein to the stamp mill, legal or not

these diverse shapes, minerals, surround a firepit, rose bushes,
nestle by a young pine in a garden sancturay for traveling stones

all are purposeful, exuding an air of determination, solidarity

all are universal, heading from a high place, down to the sea

a marvel of geology, several days or millenia from now,
ther seabed home will thrust up and they will discover
themselves on top again,ready to roll.

Be Davison Herrera

"The New Paradigm Oracle" copyright 2000 by Elizabeth Ochoa. All rights reserved.