DRY CRIK Journal: IN THE LAND OF AWE

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IN THE LAND OF AWE

                            These lakes and cliffs
                            still remember me...
                                      - Norman Schaefer (“Upper Basin”)

Imagine the people they have known –
feet felt slipping in the scree, the dreams
released within the reflected light of stars

off granite, near the top of the world.
The air is thin, the Milky Way a smear.
Time is kind, it wears so slowly

that each peak is a monument to young
memory etched upon its face, interred
here. Awesome! to be so well known.

- for Norman

Posted by John Dofflemyer on November 14, 2010 5:48 AM | Permalink

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