First Light—atop Black Butte, Central Oregon Cascades . . .
On the road in the American Northwest.
. . . A Balance of Energies . . .
The Dionysian longs for the cold
crystalline nights of high mountain Winter,
and the steady measured movement of ordered,
silent stars;
The Apollonian longs for the rushing sound
¨of glacier torrents, and the wild rhythms
and summer passion of earth-bound fire.
What Man or Woman, or Art, or Culture,
would not applaud,
would not wish to cherish and protect,
their perfect, fertile
union?