Ecology of Majesty I think I will find my way back into silence into the slant of dark that knew me before the names of things were born before the tongues of societies curled into madness separation division of this from that of one from another desecration of the flower of the wholeness of the song a harmony arising from the voices in the field in the woods and from the richness of the soil where the seed believes in light all life a singular intention the expression of one truth the way the mountain laurel blooms where bunting sweetly trills from depths of sea to reach of sky oh spinning Earth in sea of stars on one great easy breath of love I close my eyes and find my way through slant of dark where all is One and I remember why I came.
Alfred Fournier is a writer and community volunteer in Phoenix, Arizona. His poems and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Indianapolis Review, Gyroscope Review, The Sunlight Press, Delmarva Review, New Flash Fiction Review and elsewhere. Poetry publications include A Summons on the Wind (2023, Kelsay Books) and King of Beers (2025, Rinky Dink Press). He lives in the foothills of South Mountain with his wife and daughter and two birdwatching cats.
