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The interplay of land and fog,
Multiple micro-systems
Display dissimilar versions of vapor.
In places it floats, or rolls, billows or mists.
Energy captured and released in slow motion,
Vaporous kaleidoscope of muted winter colors:
Tan, brown, beige and grey.
Fog descends, deep penetrating cold,
Infiltrates my lungs, clings to clothes.
Drive Soda Bay Road for snapshots
Of a cotton-covered lake,
Panoramic Mt. Konocti framed by fog,
Wild nature sound of coots muted
As they disappear in a wet cloud.
Fog fades, a lone kayaker materializes from the mist,
Fog filters, sifts the past into the present,
Nature’s timeline.
