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Mystic Lake, distant view from the trail. The first glimpse as we approach it. Gallatin County, Montana, 1871
imagining
the morning's clarity
from the evening's
blurred impingement
from up the creek or down
not easy
over the falls
Mystic Lake
looked
so beautiful
from a distance
that first glimpse
shining
beyond the bright
meanders
beneath black
pine slopes
as we approached
it
but a dim memory
now
View down the creek a short distance below Mystic Lake. The creek falls very rapidly, some 500 feet in less than half a mile. Gallatin County, Montana, 1871
Photos by William Henry Jackson from United States Geological Surveys (U. S. Geological Survey Photographic Library)
3 comments:
Tom,
"morning's clarity . . . blurred impingement . . . from a distance . . . a dim memory" . . . .
8.30
grey whiteness of fog against invisible
ridge, towhee standing on redwood fence
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
“position” of objects, this
object however itself
surface distinction, viewer
more than picture, of
grey white of fog reflected in channel,
cormorant flapping across toward ridge
i miss driving hours through the andirondacks and finally getting to quebec. sniffles.
I miss riding across the desert for days in the back seat of a blue and white 1948 De Soto.
(Or am I misremembering -- that blurred impingement closing in again -- was it a covered wagon?)
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