In sky and on lake
Above and below mountain
Broken clouds doubled.
In sky and on lake
Above and below mountain
Broken clouds doubled.
Half hidden by leaves
River traces silky thread
Through evening forest.
Day and night collide
Bright and dark clouds side by side
Devoured by ridge.
Sunrays dance on peaks
Beaming through chasms in clouds
Pale ladders to earth.
Beneath sunlit trees
Water plummets onto rocks
Into shaded tarn.
Field turns to forest
Rounded canopy of trees
Shaped like far summits.
Start and end of days
Blue Ridge mountains soft with haze
Cool against warm sky.
Twisting through shadows
Edged by rich emerald leaves
Water curls like smoke.
Silhouettes of grass
Sway on shore of pastel lake
Dyed by setting sun.
River whittles rocks
Smoothing edges countless days
Boulders to pebbles.