On Going Home

                               rising                  mountains 

The haunting moon           out of the                   of my youth;

Golden in the low of night as I approach the foothills of San Bernardino.

I travel quickly.

The                                                 helium-balloon

        valley                              lone                           half-emptied,

                   opens and like a                                

lightly adrift and slowly ascending she is far beyond my reach.

I drive faster.