unminted gold dawn

Nature poem

Mar 6

pale sunrise of washed-out orange

and unminted gold

but navy-blue horizontal clouds

and distant hills and far distant

mountain silhouettes

patterned by branches in black

of near-by pine

Author of the Nandria Series, MaryJane is a retired family practice physician who grew up in the Midwest but now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

minutes to look at clouds