22 Nov BACK 40: WINTER PALETTE

Winter Palette

A silver palette
Of subtle hues
Softly tinted grays
And Prussian blues
A finely honed dawn
Blush silver and peach
An infinity of polished sky
Mountains within reach
Evening chills strike a
Cold metallic horizon
Purple clouds on a sea of ice
Dashed with a splash of alizarin

Jan Elpel is the author of five historical novels and is soon to be published in Journals of the Psyche. A native Montanan and a portrait and landscape painter, Elpel is always chasing seasons and the light.