Clarity

A poem.

October 25, 2011

Clarity
Today's air is so clear
We can see pencil line
Switchback dirt roads
Thirty miles distant
Climbing the Jemez Mountains.
The one hundred mile view
Exposes Colorado under a
Blank sun.
Above is palest blue,
At the horizon violet, while
Cumulonimbus, cumulus, cirrus
Hug the curve of the earth
Where sky becomes the heavens.
– Alanna C. Burke