Sometimes Within This Space
- after finding a wedding bouquet in the field at N-Sid-Sen

Here, we live peacefully among bees.
It's not hard if you trust the buzzing
is a prayer to flower, meadow, forest.

We come from concrete and asphalt,
cities where nature is a kind of mantra
people repeat, forgetting the meaning.

If there are levels of friendship
then there are levels of places:
locations that tunnel you into feelings;

places where broken oars
and broken lives can come together,
where bouquets may be abandoned,

but people are never lost;
places that whether the sky is blue
or gray, it's a big sky.

Gayle Kaune
August 3rd, 2004
Camp N-Sid-Sen, Lake Coeur d'Alene