In open air and sky of wilds, they made love in the broken light beneath autumn understory; her body as aspen’s skin—light and fair and bright in wash of sun through canopy of gold; the cool of the air and heat of their hold in stay of bond between; her face above, like sun, in focused energy below. Then in height, the sweep of sense—breath of wind affecting strong into flutter then shudder of stir into spiral, scatter, and fall in leaves’ release to will and way of wind until stilled upon the earth.
Then in the after, lying and looking up, levity and elation as they together gazed on a blue more full and clear and pure than sky has ever seemed.
Into the wilds and beyond, they explored: adventuring, discovering, and sharing full the living and experience.