There Is Somehow The Blissful Feeling

It is certainly
not in dreams--
but when one
is wide awake,
at moments
of robust joy
and achievement,
on the highest terrace of consciousness,
that mortality
has a chance
to peer beyond
its own limits,
from the mast,
from the past
and its castle tower.
And although
nothing much
can be seen
through the mist,
there is somehow
the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.
--Vladimir Nabokov (1899--1977)

Isis Temple (top)
cottonwoods, Haunted Canyon (middle)
Zoroaster and Brahma Temple from Horseshoe Mesa (below)