Ruminate

Nick Blocha

Little dots of blue and red, dark and light, make up my vision of the perceivable universe.

Clouds soar by, grand and far overhead.

Scaled in rows, broken and split so revelations are spoken in their hues, shades, and shadows.

Rich-blue waters-down behind purpled greys, silhouetted against the horizon’s fiery sunset.

How vast and ethereal they are.

Transformative, with so much to say.

We are amiss when they are mad, so too when they are gone.

Those of us who ruminate within our own souls can often be found in sight of the clouds, listening to all the wisdom they may share.

Their haze colors this land under the great, big dome of the sky.

Over the corn field lined with rows of white snow, a turbine is still to be seen through this fog, spinning by the self-same wind which carries the turbulent white above.

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About The Author

Nick Blocha is serving as a Land and Water Steward via Green Iowa AmeriCorps at the Iowa Lakeside Labs (ILL) in Milford, Iowa. Sister lab to the state hygienists in Iowa City, ILL analyzes water samples from around the state, hosts researchers and students, artists and writers, and aids in a number of environmental and community efforts with a multitude of partnering organizations and government agencies.

With a background in the arts and storytelling, and as a long-time environmental enthusiast, Nick grew up as a barefoot hippie in the woods of North Carolina and Atlanta, and values the service they can provide and assist with via the GIA program. Nick seeks to focus on the spaces where human society and nature intersect and coexist in harmony.