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英文詩詞:Parowan Canyon

英文詩詞:Parowan Canyon

  by David Lee

  When granite and sandstone begin to blur and flow, the eye rests on cool white aspen.

  Strange, their seeming transparency. How as in a sudden flash one remembers a forgotten name, so the recollection. Aspen.

  With a breeze in them, their quiet rhythms,

  shimmering, quaking. Powder on the palm.

  Cool on the cheek. Such delicacy the brittle wood, limbs snapping at a grasp, whole trees tumbling in the winds.

  Sweet scent on a swollen afternoon. Autumn, leaves falling one upon another, gold rains upon a golden earth. How at evening when the forest darkens, aspen do not.

  And a white moon rises and silver stars point toward the mountain, darkness holds them so pale.

  They stand still, very still.