The ridge is bare the stone is dry
The wind repeats the human why;
It shapes my name through cedar air
Till silence learns my breath to wear
The echoes braid through dusk and clay
The sound of loss is blown away;
Each syllable dissolves in flight
Reborn as part of greater light
It hums through pine it curls through bone
It makes the ancient hush my own;
The self expands the name is gone
The voice remains the earth moves on
The wind departs through open skies
My soul replies where echo lies;
We merge in song that has no frame
The wind and I become the same