Late afternoon sun

From the vantage point

of a car on a concrete ribbon

the landscape is ordinary:

harvested fields graying

in late afternoon, inevitable

roadside weeds labeled

“prairie rehabilitation,”

clusters of trees enveloping

farmhouses, ordinary

in that it’s seen

from almost every car

on every highway

until

the late afternoon sun

slants its light, showering

the ordinary with shimmering

gold, and the landscape

trembles as it’s transformed,

transforms as it’s redeemed

before the fall of darkness.

Photograph by Lynn Greyling via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.