descending

Into the sun from Amarillo, descending
in two dimensions to cedar hills, down
at a slow south angle toward Wichita Falls

and almost a thousand feet from nothing
but mesquite to these low hills below
Hedley where a shock of green

signals Spring rising
from the bottom
of a spectrum that began

with a night sky
on the violet side of blue,
skipped green, and ran through

at least a dozen yellows
before it settled on these red hills
and circled back to it.
© Steven Schroeder

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