Fullness

Fullness

Jack Slocomb

For in Him is found the fullness…… everything
in heaven and everything on earth…”
Colossians 1: 19-20

Seems like the once raw feral running over,
the once wide, wild silences
instilled in your bones
have become something apocryphal now,
lost in some new canon
that is always motored and florescent and
concrete and plastic and blipping, and bleeping

The hushed hollow between the hills
you scruffed through
yesterday,
the satin light falling, falling
through the nearly
shorn trees,
a moroon or amber
leaf or two still clinging on
and trembling a little
in the sleepy wind,
the creek dried down
to little lakes,
eyes that caught
the briskness of your image
as you crossed,
caught the sighing of the trees,
the autumn shine of the sky,
the passing shadow of the slopes…..

Hopefully, you won’t soon
forget this small berth in the world,
let its abundance slip under

Hopefully, you won’t soon forget
the fullness,
everything in heaven and
everything on earth,
the fullness, the fullness

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Jack Slocomb
Poet & Writer

Jack Slocomb is a nature poet and essayist rooted in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Maryland and West Virginia. Widely published in numerous journals, he recently released his first full-length poetry collection, Native Tongue (Akinoga Press). He serves as Poet-in-Residence at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland.

Photography by Jishnu Viswanath