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Skyscapes
By Norman Fischer | January 2007
New 3_2007


Tan circles
Edged in green
Rhyme with
White etched
Cloud clusters
Above
Identical
Slowly moving
Shadows
Black below
Repeated
In ranks
On bright expanse -
In rust hills
Smooth small
Lakes
Rhyme

*

Sharp
Brown
Ridges -
Knife-blades
Black in soft
Coiled shadow
As jaguars

*

Jagged
Black hills
Elongated upheavals
Rise in plain of
Squares
Green and brown
Sandpits, smudged
Mauve horizon

*

Cloud-banks
With even dividing spaces
Between

*

Gauzy smudged
Cloud scraps
Running columns
Of sand or snow
Mineral-smeared
Waste expanse
Then
Green, tan,
Mauve circles

*

Puckered run
Of ridges to
Taller random mounds
Road-knives cut toward
Pale blue lake

*

Sharp shadows
Cut peaks
Relentlessly lit

*

Road-cuts
A tan square
Forced ridges
Move slowly
Toward edge

*

Hunched hills,
Leaf-vein gullies
Chunks  
Against bulwarks

*

Desert ridges
Move slow
Sand shows
Beneath dark scrub
Congregated epic peaks
As crowns or scepters

*

Sharp hills swirl
Wind-swept sandy plain
Five tan circles
Three aligned,
One behind,
One beyond,
East of them

*

Cascading wind-swept
Sand-smudge
Without life
Hill-knobs
Sharp-ridged
Shadow-creased
Peaks

*

Branching
Snaking sand-wash
Stuttered sand-patch
Sand-road cuts
Sharp angles
Merging
Gully-swirls
Leaning bunched
Hillocks
Bordered in
Soft silt earth
Scored with etched
Gullies

*

Three
Shapeless
Blue-gray
Rhymed
Cloud-scraps
Close
As if
Formerly one
Float in pale
Blue sky then
Dissolve
In it

*

Possible dark
Vegetation
Desolately alive
On humped
Earth-mounds
In
Sand-ocean

*

Straight
Track
Cuts mauve
Expanse
Toward indefinite
Destination
Cut away

*

Swirled terraces
In dark crater
Rhymed tan mounds
Inscribed around -
In distance
Few distinctions
Looming ridges
Sandy hills, gullies

*

Green pink yellow
Blue mounds
Crevices, dark gray
Rock-hills
Tracks
Cut through

*

Shadow below
Hill-knob
Above white
Stone, flat blue
Shapeless
Slowly moving
Lake

*

Red circle
With tan center
Lion-shaded
Sand-pit
Beside

*

Comma-shaped
White
Sand-pit
Below dark
Hills – horizon smudged
Pale green to
White
Mauve clouds
Slowly moving

*

Swarm of dark dots
Shrubs
On sand-plain
Combed,
Scraped circularly
With ridges and sand-patches
Beyond green-blue
Sand-edged lake
Etched islands
Red ridges beyond

*

One distinct
Round soft
Cloud
Below
Above
Elongated
Snow-patches
Five small
Black lakes
Sharp shadows of
Peaks
Small green trees
Cascade
In gullies between

*

Humped stone peaks
Rhyming toward horizon
Smudged light green
With bright white marks
Smoke of fires slowly moving

*

Canyon lake
Sand-fringed
Below cloud-smudge
Two fish-shaped
Black lakes
Lying
At rakish angles
White airplane
Falling rapidly
East
Below

*

Steep canyons, deep gullies
Tug against
Each other
Snake direction-shifts
Toward river
Below quickly moving
Cloud column

*

Golden hills bright
Green trees in gullies
Curved, straight, streets
Housetops, treetops
Car-peppered highways
Building-tops, playing-
Fields criss-crossed
Arteries, white plane falling
To the East
Quickly
Below
Deep brown
Haze lies still
Beyond final hills
At horizon
Blue
Sky with long white
Unmoving cloud
Wide green
Expanse of bay black-
Edged silver car-peppered
Bridge
Cuts straight
Across
Insect-like
Airplane-shadow
On ever-closer
White-tipped
Water
Rippled
Regularly
Five white sailboats
Two close two
Further
Beyond them glossy
Water and
Tall white cityscape
Pushed up into haze
Tall brown hills
Beyond