"Over Utah in January" - Geography in Poetry
"Over Utah in January" by Virginia Knowles I am in the sky looking down on Vast speechless stretches of frozen white Curved round and round by Slicing crevices and streams And human roads abandoned though they be Foothills then soaring mountains beyond Majestic tall yet distant small From the sky where I look down Clustering pines (wilderness steeples) Defer to barren ground below Shedding to it cumbering, nurturing snow Upright spires green Evergreen over branches, trunks, Rough and woody brown Rooted deeply into ascending slope Yet as living arrows aiming high To the sky where I look down Up and over mountain towers, fly Peering through mottled fog outstretched Amid earthy upturned layers, variegated ripples Shadow clouds now upwisping Sharply angled peaks Oh! These are of no h...