The Wave of Breath

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Nasa. Bob Cahalan

This Landsat 7 image of clouds off the Chilean coast near the Juan Fernandez Islands (also known as the Robinson Crusoe Islands) on September 15, 1999, shows a unique pattern called a "von Kármán vortex street." This pattern has long been studied in the laboratory, where the vortices are created by oil flowing past a cylindrical obstacle, making a string of vortices only several tens of centimeters long. Study of this classic "flow past a circular cylinder" has been very important in the understanding of laminar and turbulent fluid flow that controls a wide variety of phenomena, from the lift under an aircraft wing to Earth's weather.

Endings 

confound me

in their ability to make themselves known

in morning hours filled with light,

in dreams 

which foretell

those truths 

blithely overlooked

during day's cognizance.

In dreams, I learn

to ride the wave of breath

to its natural end,

a replenishment 

of that interior landscape

so ready to receive.

So too,

today's end

wrapping itself around a calendar date

which marches forward

regardless of intent.

I breathe.

copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2015