Gary Snyder: "Pine Tree Tops"

                                                  in the blue night
                                                  frost haze, the sky glows
                                                  with the moon
                                                  pine tree tops
                                                  bend snow-blue, fade
                                                  into sky, frost, starlight.
                                                  the creak of boots.
                                                  rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
                                                  what do we know.



"Pine Tree Tops" by Gary Snyder, from Turtle Island (New Directions, 1974).

Art credit: Untitled photograph from a series entitled "December 4-6, 2011 Blair Nebraska Moon-lit Snow and Trees, Coyotes, and Fog Optics" by Extreme Instability.