Mt Blanca

trademarked green and white "Welcome to Colorful Colorado" greets my eyes Mt Blanca rises smooth and elegant as a wedding cake draped with fondant late April snow coated majestic and proud reaching up through the clouds it strikes the home chord in my heart deeper than the tourist town I love to never stay not home home-base this is my home I just don't live anywhere anymore but for a couple of months to babysit a kitten and a pup breath thin air on Pikes Peak pan gold on Cripple Creek celebrate my aunt's 90th reunite with my cousins hike some woods energize my soul to smile and be free from strange longings titilatations that don't bridge the void... dear home you raised, educated initiated and launched me into this frenzy yearning and hurting I return kinder than my first love and fairer than my last your bosom buries my sorrow no shame nor defeat just wounds deep enough to be whole, again home, again preciosa Mt. Blanca your wedding dress slips down bare shoulders dripping rivers and creeks I'll stay with you refreshed and sustained with fresh hope from within this odyssey love drifts in and out never lost no she's sunning herself up around the bend gazing from the summit of some forgotten trail singing love songs in some dive honky tonk or pouring coffee on route 66 the loveliest sweet icing on this delicious cake on my lips Pikes Peak Cripple Creek and you Mt Blanca