Levels

 Levels

John Clare Stokes

Mine has been a life of levels

Of sometimes being on  the

 highest point 

To view the horizon

Of dwelling below the tree line

Of doing my dead level best

To capture the rising whether

It be sun, or water or fire

Of finding comfort in the dwelling 

in the lower 

levels only left behind for the

metoroic climb 

the lone dweller from the lower level

A seeing Helen Adams Keller

Telling those who were searching

that Orion can be best seen from the deepest well

And not atop this sun drenched hill.

Big Shoals

Suwannee River when low