Kechika Wild

Beautiful sunset light and colorful tundra looking toward Tombstone Mountain during Autumn in the Ogilvie Mountain wilderness, Yukon Territory.

by Louise Goulet

 

The sun was sinking below the ragged mountain peaks,

bathing the valley below in a warm golden glow.

 

A light wind was drifting up the steep valley slopes,

caressing the shivering saffron grasses and the silvery willows

who were shimmering against a crimson sky.

 

Below the river was lazily meandering, sparkling in the dying light,

past dark spruces and emerald oxbows.

 

A moose was feeding mid-calf in a crescent-shaped slough,

water and green grassy ribbons dripping from its mouth.

 

Time had stopped as I stood entranced above the valley floor.

 

Mysterious chemicals pathways were engraving in my mind,

for decades to come, this time, this place where I had come to be

and where a part of me still is; all senses tingling, in awe,

overwhelmed by the beauty and wildness of this untamed world.

 

September 2009

4 comments

  1. Louise, I don’t think that I know you, but I surely know the feeling of that mysterious beauty, particularly the grandness and grace of a feeding moose – your words bring back to me the immenseness of the silence while on a canoe trip round the Bowron Lakes many years ago.

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