Valley Wall
the valley walls, scoured hard
climateric rain and ice dam breaking
single-day flood that made this canyon
rough rock subsumed in moss
millennia after natural like nothing happened
and someone just painted us green
sea-tides come so far as to touch
feet of silken waterfalls, a shore of
an older, different ocean, unremembered
Images from Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area, OR, February 2010
climateric rain and ice dam breaking
single-day flood that made this canyon
rough rock subsumed in moss
millennia after natural like nothing happened
and someone just painted us green
sea-tides come so far as to touch
feet of silken waterfalls, a shore of
an older, different ocean, unremembered
Images from Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area, OR, February 2010
Labels: abstract realism, photography, poem
posted by Art Durkee at 1:13 AM
2 Comments:
Glorious green moss, Art, like felt gloves on branches. Lovely.
That's the beauty of the temperate coastal rainforest, there in Oregon. It's always green, even in winter.
100 miles or more inland, it's high desert again.
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