Braided Glass (feat. Doug Cox, Kevin Fox & BettySoo)

Gazing on glacier-drawn plaited streams in Orphic mass

Every year changing course, never know which strands will last

Braided river bars, all so like our scars, grow or fade away

From this overlook, Toklat storybook, polychrome ballet

Such braids of strife, is this our life, the joy of chance array

Ribboning round the fallen boles and islets of today

Braided-glass river pass, will the far-famed peak break through

Ice mystique, hide and seek, poplar golds in view

We're Denali bound, tundra red and brown, will these clouds now lift

Open up these hues, majestic rendezvous, still in mist

We persevere with climbing fears the crumbling stones and roads

And then it's framed: blue sky, moraine, snowcaps juxtaposed

Water dance, flood romance, Chihuly rotolo

Granite beds, snow-melt fed, twining cold and bold

Cyan purls that curl, milky silt aswirl, routing rocks and trees

Will they take a heart, make a work of art, bloom in scree

Such braids of strife, is this our life, the joy of chance array

Ribboning round the fallen souls and beauty of this day