Red Fox and the Pathway Home

Red Fox and the Pathway Home
by Kathryn Preston


The Full Harvest Moon illuminates

my wild inner landscape,

currently eclipsing the external world.


The Night is an

old kodachrome negative:

solids are light,

nebulous spaces, dark.

Sitting Indian-style on Mother Earth,

she asks the universe for a sign.

Suddenly,

A Red Fox trots,
stops,
and talks.

He brings a message from the Unseen.

"You live in the 'in-between,'

light and dark,

dawn and dusk,

following Nature’s musk

to the doorways of other worlds.

Listen.

Fox ears HEAR Spirit.

Close your eyes and listen.

I am your brother, and Like you

I carry all of creation within me.

FREE YOUR CREATIVITY.

This is your pathway Home."

The Old Druid by Kathryn Preston

The Old Druid
By Kathryn Preston


To the Druid,
the Mighty Oak is King,
but the Pine Tree
does it for me.
Lovely Pine Tree
protects,gives privacy
to those who scamper
beneath her eaves.
She has no leaves
to drop in Fall.
All in all,
she stays tall and full
year 'round,
standing her ground,
whistling her sacred song
when the spirit we call 'wind '
comes along to speak with me
through the Pine Tree.

Her branches
reach toward heaven
seeking her boon
like an old Druid
'drawing down the moon.'

Surrounded
by precious Pines,
it's here I feel most "at home."