Landscape

Photo by RP Thomas

Landscape

In Talent, the edge

is always near,

civilization and the

wild enmeshed,

distance a provocation,

a dire warning and  

welcoming invitation;

the seer,

like a frightened deer,

may misjudge the scene

and move along a path

that wends downward for

a fraction of time before

climbing into unfamiliar

terrain, where green and blue

merge into something both

alien and true; sheer

terror, thence broken, becomes

new, confounding emotion.

TS