As The Day Passes
Canyon Walls Stand, Canvas for
Always Shifting Light
And Something Stirs in
The Shadows or the Light on
The Rocks or In Me
Molten Sunlight Caught
In Utah Alabaster
And Prairie Flower
Molten Sunlight Cooled
By Sapphire Skies, By Time, and
Laid in Sheared Rock Walls
Worn Away By Wind
And Water, Canyons Painted
Orange and Grey and Green
Steeped in Light and Dark
Time and Distance Are Dissolved
To an Ancient Calm
Oceans Came and Went
Mountains Rose and are Eroding
Rivers and Wind Carve
Sculpting in Red Rock
Adding and Removing Over
The Passing Eons
Stone Wall Etched in Light,
Snow and Shadow Psalms Stillness
Across the Hill’s Crest
Even Then, the Melting
Reveals a Sun Warmed Rock, and
Tells Another Story
As Drifts Curve ‘Round Like
Ripples From a Pebble Dropped
In a Summer Pond
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