fingers of forest interspersed with fingers of pasture -- the hidden & the exposed -- two kinds of danger: being seeable & being unable to see. is the mind fearful of being exposed the same as the mind fearful of being confined?
cypress tips
glow with afternoon sun:
yellow for a time.
the green hills, lit through monsoon clouds, change shape before me.
squall line coming: the rains will freshen the fort, those walls grown green.
light makes greens greener,
and clouds glow brightly; its lack
makes the blues bluer
young red leaf, on a sapling in Spring, slowly grows green. doesn't it know it should start green, and turn red in the Fall?
Tiger Riding for Beginners 