Where demure white violets blush
under sunset's grandiose gold
near Antelope Valley,
Topaz Lake with its reservoir
full of rainbow trout
reflects more colors
of the sun's changing mood.
A thoughtful haze
may hug the foothills,
under luscious layers
of towering thunderheads.
Giant red Indian Paintbrush glows
like scarlet scion of this evening's view.
Brown-barrel cones grow upright
on aromatic incense-cedars,
marked by reddish-brown bark,
peeling on wide trunks.
A few pronghorn antelope peer out
between jutting Jeffrey pine trees,
which grow tall and reserved
as British guards.
Every composition of this sunset
lives in a memory,
collected in Nature's soul.
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