I Sought Beauty

I found:
three orange leviathans swimming beneath the frozen surface of a garden pond,
an amorous full moon, beckoning me to flight,
a water-color sunset of grey and purple,
a soaring bald eagle, sharp-beaked, yellow claws joyful,
a wet-forest mushroom hiding in the image of wood, delicate fungii genitals underneath,

a pine tree, loaded with cones, reflected in a sky-scraper window,
a great-horned owl perched atop a great pine, set against a flaming sunset, head revolving back and forth,
an orange gecko, lounging from a Kona ceiling, ambushing passing mosquitoes,
two late winter crab apples, still clinging to the tree, championing the cause of last Fall,
a rainbow tiger bounding through the jungle of my imagination.