cloud forest (napo 2)

Beautiful from a distance, I would have you

Stay far

Let no one close enough to see the way your eyes lift

When you smile

You straddle erosion and decay

balance on the edge of a landslide

But no one comes to throw nets over your latest tumble

Or snare your slip-stray rocks

And so you reform again,

A new pinnacle,

That much closer to the sea