Ascent

Snow has a scent
as soothing and electrical as
lightening or rain

the Big Bang has a sound
a kin
to our very first heartbeat

from smallest to largest
from birth to death
like the "pop" of the Amaryllis bud when it opens
life has a force, an energy,
a quickening,
one cannot help but feel
a sense of awe

overwhelming joy
frozen sorrow
in the empty space left
by death

from one end of the spectrum
to the Other
the very quality
of sound and "ma"
moves still.