Peacock perched
Overnight in the tree
Its magnificent train
Eyed covert feathers
Invisible in the new moon
Pearl in mollusk
Pried hinge
Oyster knife
Murky water
Lotus emerges
Can you see it?
Crack the geode
Grey hard exterior
Purple crystal heart
Do you seek
What is hidden
Out of fear of smiling faces
Once you find
What you dig out
What you thought
Tick or sliver or boil
Is none of these things
What then?
-Copyright C.M. Mounts, August 2017
