Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun.
And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road
that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty,
the cold though, doesn't it split
the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
And then in the summertime such extreme
summertime
about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter
than just some months ago, than
just some months from now,
with fireweed blooming
along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing
and carving
and reminding us that here,
Mother Nature wins.
It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild
good life teeming along the road that is
north to the future.
Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin, of Alaska
(OK, sorry for all the hate these days, but that is PRICELESS. and not a bad poem. And you know, I actually sort of admire Palin--at least she has the balls to say what she thinks, even if what she says is crap.)
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