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Teton Goodnight

TETON  GOODNIGHT



From   the hollows in stone  the departing sun 

Pours the twilight round  the mountains’  curtains,

Drawing together their  shades’ 

Gold end.   Aye, the golden day

Is spent, worn against

Raw rock thrown upright  two miles high: 

Bouldered shoulders close over -  

Michael’s  knelling golden clarion.

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NOTE

The Tetons  in Wyoming  -  one of my favorite places.
They are  seen to excellent advantage in the movie  “Shane”.

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/1/2011 10:17:00 PM

and there is my answer, Wyoming! I should know this since I am in Utah. but for some reason I was thinking snake river was Idaho. So cool how you got another poem out of the picture!

Sidney Beck
Date: 6/1/2011 10:34:00 PM

Andrea, thanks for reading my doggerel, I always appreciate your support...... may i ask a favor? please look closely at the fourth line of the poem...I asked my wife and she couldn't "see" it....is it "seeable" to you? (I thought I was being clever..... won't give any clues)....best wishes Syd