The Smile of the Unvanquished

PANORAMA --- golden slopes flow in sinuous grace into a chalice where liquid pearls are conceived with the imprint of the solemn horizon and the implacable ocean. stature, firm and proud, yields to no torment forged by mankind. this voice cleans the air from ripe and fusty emissions festering in the boroughs of spleen. twilight sinks, the moon gallops; cavernous drumbeats settle for no less than the fugue outreaching the furthest canopy. --- WOMAN

unreined, a smiles kisses the fleeting horizon, raptured by the promise to perch on the coasts of infinity. a thunderous roar fills the prairie as an influx of bisons drift in blind delusion for power and survival from threshold to threshold. the heart takes wings, soars from the dust cloud and led by a keen look, takes course over the rugged terrain. and finally lands in an oasis of lush verdure, overlooking the ocean, waiting for rolling white waves of mares to carry him to that veiled island of the blessed.