Smile

Photo: Heather Williams: Fletcher Place, Indianapolis, IN

Look up.

Chin up Charlie.

Turn that frown upside down.

Smile

and the Dogwood might smile back :)

Imaginary Paintbrush

(Photo: Heather Williams Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis, IN)

For my soul

my soul

my soul

imaginary

paintbrush

watercolor

canvas

brought

to life

by water

by a sunset

reflection of

beauty

For my soul

my soul

my soul

imaginary

artist

me

Stillness Won: Forever was Found

(Photo: Heather Williams: Fort Ben State Park, Indianapolis, IN)

For a moment

stillness

won and we

found

forever

in

time.

Radiant Beam of Light (Death Might be a Blue Fuzz Dream)

(Photo: Heather Williams, San Francisco, CA)

Death

Might

Be

A

Blue

Fuzz

Dream

Returning

To

A

Radiant

Beam

Of

Light

Splitting

The

Wave

In which

We cannot

Escape.

Blowing in the Wind

(Photo Heather Williams- Front Yard, Indianapolis, IN)

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, it's blowing in the wind....

Blackwater Woods

(Photo Heather Williams-Fort Ben State Park, Indianapolis, IN)

In Blackwater Woods

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies...
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go
~Mary Oliver