Longing

( by Nick Mancuso )

look
the mountains
have called out
their longing
and their sweet embrace
& from their crystal
sunlit tips
of hard rock and snow
sent out
their desire

to valley
and to comforting
hillock to the far stretching
plain the
earth now rumbles
and cracks
love seeps everywhere

and to sudden blossom
shiver sand is
reborn.