Portals

Leaves race across the grass tips

and the howling wind drowns my thoughts out

thoughts that weigh heavy and press upon me

like storm clouds

The sun slips behind me unnoticed

until I pause to feel 

stand still to witness

the dance of dark vapours above me

I see amidst their swirling

wounds swelling like portals

and I wonder at the light

on the cusp of rupture

breaching all I have become

a humpback whale summoned

by a force unseen

lifted from the sea into flight.