Mountain Music

Mountain Music

I marvel at the jagged peaks

the Bookcliffs throw up against a morning sky

wondering what they might sound like and

I want

to lay over them manuscript paper

to notate Bruin Point to Mount Garfield and beyond

begin to see this melody shape in itself

one hope

that when I mark bass clef lines and spaces

we might hear creation’s first chorale

a symphony this mountain music brings

for life

(Poem by Pastor Jim Drury, Ascension St. Matthew's Church, Price, UT. Pastor Drury serves a joint Lutheran Episcopal parish at the base of the Bookcliffs. Joint ministry with the Episcopal Diocese of Utah and others is also part of our landscape.)