God's wonders
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Tara Reilly, Grade 7
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Poetry
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2003
A Momentary Eden: Its brushes soaked in bearberry crimson, aspen gold,/and the bristling blue of spruce trees, autumn paints/tumbling slopes with the vivid genius/that could only be made by God's hands./This exhibition only lasts a few days-/a final flourish before the long monochrome of winter./Walls of flame: The sun drops in the sky. First one, then another/mountain-face kindles until the whole mass/of the mountain range seems to burn/in scarlet and gold./From far below, lavender twilight moves/up the jagged slopes, extinguishing the last fires of day./As tall as the sky: Mountains above a glacier rise in cloud-shadowed/ranks, decorated with brilliant swirls of weathered/mineral deposits like marbled endpapers/in an antique book.