Today’s featured poet, sid sibo, is an immensely talented writer and poet, currently living and working as an environmental analyst on the western slope of the Rockies. sid shares an amazing connection to the land and is quite possibly one of the most profound poets I’ve been blessed to meet.

You can find more inspiration and writing at their website: sid sibo

Please enjoy this delicious gem.

Rendezvous

Rime dampens leaf crackle;

your boots lift peppered scent.

Hunt camp disappears behind

cedar bog.

Squat. Touch fungus. Listen.

Other

footsteps pause and proceed,

pause and advance and

through breathing balsam

thrusts midnight wolf, eyes

intrepid suns,

nose lifted to strange reek.

Three strides apart;

you ingest each other.

Raven calls out.

But wolf ears—steep

mountains—focus

only on mystery.

Onyx lips open to glacier grin.

Ferned plume of tail

spins past.

Ancient air pours through you

and you sink like

rain into the duff.

Wait. Lichened greenstone

on trembling tongue.

Knowledge, basaltic,

rises along your backbone.

Footsteps circle around,

returning.

Deep forest dark together,

Gold fever curious.

Exchange breaths, learning.