[pct-l] Sundown, Yellow Moon

[jennhead22 at yahoo.com (Jenn Head)]

Sun, glorious sun! Hail Lord Frith! The sun shines in the northwest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wayne Kraft <wayneskraft@comcast.net> wrote:  As I emerged this evening from the undistinguished office building in 
which I daily labor, I was stopped dead in my tracks. There, off to 
the east, towering over the ill-considered suburban landscape, was 
Mt. Hood. I do not know what the setting sun (that rogue, that 
scalliwag setting sun) had said or done to make her blush, but she 
was pulsing peppermint pink, radiantly aglow, basking in his 
attentions after so many weeks of gloomy neglect. Hanging directly 
above her summit at nine o'clock high, a nearly full moon waxed 
gibbous against the ice blue sky. A cool east wind blew directly off 
her glaciated slopes and seemed to call out to me, "Lean into me. 
Follow me home." Why can't I just stop here, I asked myself. Why 
can't I just stay here and watch this beautiful night unfold? Ah, 
but I was expected elsewhere by people who depend on me. I could not 
tarry . So, while the sun sank and the mountain glowed and the moon 
ascended and the wind swooned and the best and brightest of the stars 
and planets set their kindling alight, I commuted. As I rolled along 
the highway cut from the river's bank, I considered her. She could, 
with one powerful spasm of her vast volcanic heart, change 
everything: turn night to day, rearrange the landscape, burn the 
city to the ground, dam the rivers and flood the earth. She could 
clean us out, she could. Had it been her choice to do so, just right 
then, I think I would have cheered.

Wayne
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Jennifer Head

Ph.D. Candidate
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
P.O. Box 5389
Charleston, Oregon 97420 
Phone: (541) 888-2581 ext. 291
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