Sky Bridges

A poetic vision seen during an acupuncture session, January 23, 2010

The curving sandstone bridges rise
Like light spring haze into the skies
To distant spirals lost deep in
The waves of blue beyond man’s vision.

Art deco pylons stretch below,
All glossy smooth like water’s flow
Down unmapped falls to touch a darkness
That feeds an ancient wilderness.

The bridges dwarf hard shattered cliffs,
Long broken by wind’s wild riffs,
With symmetry of balanced tension
To heights undreamt of by the mountains.

Are they unfolding ropes and links
To other worlds kept by some sphinx
Who sits in meditation burning
In high ice caps of twilight gleaming?

Santiago del Dardano Turann