Kite Boarding on Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is up to its old tricks again: the waves are very high and kite boarders are loving it.  It is dangerous, but that must be part of the appeal.  I took this video a year ago.  The lake is even wilder today.  http://youtu.be/MZwLo-x_k8Y Click the link to see kite boarding.

The Circle of Life: Salmon

Circuits

Light from a star that died

shines out

from jade green eyes.

A salmon tail fans streambed stones

and dark silt swirls.

Millennia ago a star spurt fire and

now a constellation of eggs

and white milt spiral down

in black water.

Fishbone lattices litter the stream

that speaks of glaciers

and purls.

Frost flowers bloom on the cut bank

while embryos curl in sweet cold sleep below.

___Barbara Spring

An excerpt from my book of poetry and essays: The Wilderness Within.