Shedding

Shedding 

I breathe that amorphous scent

Rising from wet earth

Not quite of the ground

Nor of the water

But for the brief period 

Of their mating

I breathe

I glow in the last light

That kisses the trees good night 

In the slanting shafts 

Interleaving shadows

I glow

I unfold in every moment of beauty

Blossoming among the mundane

To transform it

In their meeting 

I bloom

With every whiff, every glint , every unfolding 

That reveals you

Reveals me

I clothe myself 

With just one more strand of your love

Shed one more pretense

So wrapped, naked

Soak in a sliver of the truth, highlighted.

--shubha