On the far side
of the canyon
light
is burning
through two
draws
like water
rushing
into an empty
riverbed.
of the canyon
light
is burning
through two
draws
like water
rushing
into an empty
riverbed.
A canyon wren
opens
her mouth
and a coyote
stops
midtrail
before vanishing
among juniper.
opens
her mouth
and a coyote
stops
midtrail before vanishing
among juniper.
As we descend
the eastern wall
we look
down
onto
ponderosa
pine
and witness
the shadow
of a merlin
chase
the merlin
itself.
the eastern wall
we look
down
onto
ponderosa
pine
and witness
the shadow
of a merlin
chase
the merlin
itself.
Behind us
in the meadow
where we lay
last night
the squall
of an elk
picks up
the sound
of sunlight
and joins it
in a flood
of bugling.
in the meadow
where we lay
last night
the squall
of an elk
picks up
the sound
of sunlight
and joins it
in a flood
of bugling.
"The Sound of Sunlight" by Todd Davis, from In the Kingdom of the Ditch. © Michigan State University Press, 2013. Photography credit: "Light and shadow play with each other across the cliffs of the Grand Canyon," by Bhaskar Krishnamurthy (originally color).
Simply beautiful. And I love the way the verticality of the poem suggests the canyon and the trees and the beams of sunlight.
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