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3:45AM Yellowstone Park

By Leigh Banner

3:45AM Yellowstone

The air is black when I unzip my tent
I step quietly on wet moss
into early morning mist
Into a world as still as  stars.

The river reaches through the canyon
Deep red slides slowly into pink
And mixes with hues of  blue.

At the water’s edge,
I breathe in pine needles
and the soft cedar bark
My kayak rests
belly up

I pack the inside with a light load
And wade into shimmering shallows
I push off hoping to beat the wind and ease into the glide

Gentle waves knock the bow
I float to the center

The shore fades away
Orange sky meets wide water blue
in a collision of color and light
The only sound is the oar dipping
And my breath

 

Leigh Banner is a seventeen-year-old student at The Spence School and lives in New York City

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue 22

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