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Fiery horizon
behind a line of trees:
sunrise in the
heart of winter.
Snowcapped hills are
sun-vermillioned,
Icicles ignite.
A rooster is illuminated
in prismatic grass.
His shed’s incandescent.
Wind lifts its powdered roof
as frozen smoke.
Edges are dazzled, ablaze.
The landscape unshapes.
No one questions this brightness.
Thoughts are ruby rays
on glass branches,
infinitesimal emerald and
violet lights
sphering in updrafts.
Nothing’s comprehensible
at last.
©2003, Diana Manister
Diana Manister's poetry can be found online at PaganPlace WaterWorks and in these anthologies: Distance from the Tree, Poems About Fathers, The Carnegie Program and From Water to Wine to Waterford, all from Headwaters Press, and The Company We Keep from Poets Warriors Publications. She is the subject of a program on the popular cable TV show Poet to Poet.
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