Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Morning Glory



Morning Glory

Just-before-sunrise

around a switch-backed blacktop loop--
confronted--
confounded
surprised stop
yanked by the mountain-rise above

vast flowing river’d expanse below,
that glistened watered width to distance’s horizon,

and those high forested foothills across in Oregon,
here
--shocked in beauty--

off a 2-lane routed asphalt low-way road
belaying up Cape Horn’s side--
Immense, eyed-wide
That vast Vista!

Mellowed Gorge, oh Columbia,
awe-souled
shade of dawn,
down
to the swift water's
insomnia
below

Caught in the Rise


-Daniel Wilcox


In the light of confounded Beauty,

Daniel Wilcox

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