by Dane Karnick

Skiing on untouched powder
Comes the mountain ridge
At seventy miles per hour

That wide sweeping sky
Past fir and ponderosa
The altitude of prayer

Speeding underneath skis
Through snow shattering
The minute glass of time

In its wonderment of white
Blanketing everything like
The vowels in Jehovah

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Dane Karnick grew up by the Colorado “Rockies” and lives in Treasure Valley, Idaho. His poetry has appeared in such publications as One Art and El Portal.