Winter Towers

The angles are perfection.

Facing all directions

the walls of this structure

provide steady vantage

in a shifting city.

Among its setting

its height is supreme.

It is the tower of the plains

set in front of the towers of the west.

It gives cadence to our view,

a view of the black rock and snow

of the ranges beyond.

It offers only respect and humility

to the rising hills west of this city.

These are towers placed not by the hands of men

but by the hands of God.

Molten earth and wind and rain.

This tower is supreme

only because those mountains are supreme.

And we strive for those heights.