like some unending horizontal waterfall
the vast west vibrant water
gripping crisp violet
streaked with deep turquoise riffs
strutting white caps, sharp
and the message is this:
it is larger, more powerful
than we can think
on days like this
places like this
we are merely
frail witnesses
*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem is included in The View from Lummi Island.
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