this panorama
winter-sided light
mid-afternoon partly
slanted down
turning towards sunsets
spectacular sight

sun rays streak
clouds slide about
skinny on down
rolling hill side
yellow sleeked plain
blue-green grayed

mountain lion suns
upon pale rock
snow-clouded horizons
lonely flowers in the dark
overgrown desert garden

cotton woods line
dried up creek bed
an owl hoots
riders cross the sage
create silhouettes

snow-tipped tops
prairie shaded dusk
purple twilight collage
beyond the way
in the lonely evening

company comes
as full moon rises
lovers are close by
hand in hand on the lane
when you appear

where did you come from?
why must you go round
through miles of blue sky
over snow shrouded peaks
just to find me

underneath the bottomless sky

(c) D.E. Clark