Storm over Steinmaur
© 2001 by Edessa Ramos

A storm lurks beyond the mountains

rushing to where I sit

inside my car

on a tumultuous hillside

with doors ajar to welcome the wind.

 

Tempest threatens my illusory peace

even while I watch sunlight brush

each mountain’s snowy face

printed against stripes of magenta blue.

 

Quickly it darkens now,

white mountains retreat into haze,

portraits of the horizon evaporate

into an unknown place.

 

A lone hawk challenges the rising wind,

spirals flatly like a leaf,

dips like a dart, then,

overpowered like my heart,

plummets down to the shallow field.

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