Lowlands by Ryan Brennan

From certain locations 

you can catch the whole

sunset 

But from here, 

over the edge of the barn out back, 

we see just 

a glimpse 

Our small window between

blooming mountain lines

makes her miss the open

frames of the farms, fields, and

lowlands we found in the wide

valley of our youth

From there,

everything was in our sight,

the future still a sky on fire

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Ryan Brennan is a poet living in the Catskill Mountains