Joshua Moore Colorado

Hail needles the skin. Wind cracks the spine. The mountain holds, breath seizes on the tongue. Snow knives the summits. Cracked hands fumble dry stone, paper-thin air slices, bald eagles tilt in the blast. Alpine skiers parched, no more Earth Day banners. Cherry Creek scrapes its bed. Feces in the bedpan, chapped gloss smeared, cocoa hair salted and smoked. The Zephyr rattles east, carrying the mountains backward— Grand Central dissolves