why to climb to pyramid point
by Matthew Miller
To seek seclusion in descent, to leave
the dune’s peak crowded
with fiddleheads and leeks. To step into
your own shadow, unrolling
a slow cascade of sand around your ankles.
To know a place where ancients said
earth and heaven overlap, where you leap
from cliffs and land soft. To bury the apple skin
within the unbarked branch, so that the wind
must send waves in a blazing gradient.
To sit on the ridge of the drift, dumping grains
like sugar across the violets at your toes.
Matthew Miller teaches social studies, swings tennis rackets, and writes poetry - all hoping to create home. He and his wife live beside a dilapidating orchard in Indiana, where he tries to shape dead trees into playhouses for his four boys. His poetry has been featured in Whale Road Review, River Mouth Review, EcoTheo Review and Ekstasis Magazine.
