I sit beside the pool
Camera on tripod
Watching the light change
From sunset, to dusk, to night
Camera on tripod
Watching the light change
From sunset, to dusk, to night
On a calm, breezeless evening
Not even a shimmer on the reflecting pond
My mind drifts
With the passing of time
A gateway for explorers
Then settlers
Then migrants
Then refugees
And now I
A traveler
No more than that
Trying to piece it all together
A gateway for one culture
To expand and grow
An ingress to another
Invasion, decimation
But not yet dead
Resurgent
Another click of the shutter
As the sky goes
From blue
To pink
To vivid fuschia
Violet and cobalt
To jet black
Stars in hiding
From city lights
The sky closes to
The gateway
The Gateway Arch
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
St. Louis
Missouri, United States of America
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
St. Louis
Missouri, United States of America
Taken during travels, 1997
Posted in response to this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge, Vivid.