A scene of green

MIDSUMMER

A green world, a scene of green, deep

with light blues, the greens made deep

by those blues. One thinks how

in certain pictures, envied landscapes are seen

(through a window maybe) far behind the serene

sitter's face, the serene pose, as though

in some impossible mirror, face to back,

human serenity gazed at a green world

which gazed at this face.

And see how,

here is that place, those greens

are here, deep with those blues. The air

we breathe is freshly sweet, and warm, as though

with berries. We are here. We are here.

Set this down, too, as much

as if an atrocity had happened and been seen.

The earth is beautiful beyond all change.  

~William Bronk~

Aurora Borealis image from Photobucket

Poem found at Medusa's place