Michael Joseph Ferguson (1972 / California)

home, 
a tribal remedy
  beat
   stone
    whistle
  beat
 
 beat
   stone
    whistle
  beat

home, 
ancient bodyguard
rampart
against the pain
of repetitive thoughts

home, 
a vast accompanying stranger
old friend, sure-footed

home, 
atop the occasional rooftop
triumphant, adolescent 
wonder

home, 
a forest peering into
a glassy lake
somewhere

listening to 
quiet star music

home, 
a mild foot on
pine needles
cascading
against skin
in millions
of pointed
affirmations

home, 
a word
like 'sky'
or 'tranquility'
or 'touch'

home, 
ever-expanding
concentric rings
of all that
has now 
become

familiar