[pct-l] Sundown, Yellow Moon

[mdchurch at gmail.com (Matt Church)]

the mountains of olympus and rainier were seen today in seattle.  how
splendid they're making themselves seen again.

happily,
matt

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On 2/9/06, Jenn Head <jennhead22@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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