the one on the left

the sky overhead in bands of electric blue and softly scalloped pink glowing clouds, the mountains black with hidden sun. darkness comes swiftly and blue loses the electric, clouds shudder to gray. violet overtakes and then blackness and the shimmering prickling light of stars in a no-moon night. skies pretend to be limitless but are only infinite. magic is pretended well when moons are missing and the coyotes howl at their reflections in the rivers because there is no bowl in the sky.
touching the edges of the earth, where the dead do not dare walk for fear of having to live.