Poem: "Blandeur" by Kay Ryan (you can listen to the poet reading this poem at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172276)
Photograph: "Niagara Felled" by me
"Niagara Felled"
"Blandeur" by Kay Ryan
If it please God
let less happen.
Even out Earth's
rondure, flatten
Eiger, blanden
the Grand Canyon.
Make valleys
slightly higher,
widen fissures
to arable land,
remand your
terrible glaciers
and silence
their calving,
halving and doubling
all geographical features
toward the mean.
Unlean against our hearts.
Withdraw your grandeur
from these parts.
