Reply #8: Heh. People, we're thinking too hard. It's a conversation with the horizon.

[BlueIris]

The horizon here is personified as the other party in this exchange. It's a bit gimicky, (I think the author was trying to be cute, which, well, it worked on me) but still resulted in a great piece. (Yet your observation that it could have been, in a poem of another era perhaps, a conversation with God, is funny in the same way this poem is funny; it suggests that in the twentieth century of cold wars and secular liberalism, the poets wrote not to the dieties we once thought rested above the horizon, but the horizon itself.)