Intermission A willow's fluted ribbons skirt the creek while swallows streak on lucent, seamless trails. Through tangle-rooted tunnels foxes seek their prey where stark survival law prevails. The glow of twilight regally descends on pale chromatic stairs - each leaf entwines its aura, breathing in the amber blends. With calibrated strokes the night aligns new etchings on the mountain, dusts the trees with porous shade. A cricket choir embeds the hollows with nocturnal harmonies and stars bequeath their pulsing, silver threads. Then time itself withdraws, in pensive thought, to ponder all the wonders God has wrought. copyright 2001 by Laryalee Fraser |