Virginia Nightfall

Virginia Nightfall

Weary from the day I drove west toward a lavender sky.
How can it be so impossibly perfect with neon pink and

orange frilled mountain edges?
Twilight's periwinkle perfection with watercolor moon on high

Draws me toward the western glow and the solace it pledges.

Deeply intimate with evening, azure mountains and sky meet

And hesitate in a fervent hot pink embrace.
Brilliant stars with cut glass clarity illumine Orion's feet

As dusk and dark merge earth and sky and earthly forms erase.

Inhaling the cool, moist evening breath of earth

A welcome respite from the hectic pace

Awareness piqued by this nightfall’s birth

Beatific vision, proof of God’s grace.

By Cheryl Banks

January 18, 2008