Staring at the horizon

in layered heaps of blue,
and sunsplashed green
the mountains
in side by side procession,
stretch from here
to the ends of the sky,
hues of green
and rocky humps
gradually change
as the sun
seems to paint
from a different palette,
mixing curtains of vapor,
grey clouds and white,
and i become
at one with all things. . .

1987
Camp Albert Pike Arkansas