A Walker, I
...a walker, I.
A walker fancying himself
a hiker, on a walk, self-narrated as
an expedition.
The incline is gentle, consistent,
insistent and yet i insist,
as i am inclined to do,
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Categories:
pinyon, art, journey, tree,
Form: Free verse
The Grand Canyon
...From the Painted Desert, head west
Past sagebrush, brittle bush, desert scrub
And The Petrified Forest at rest
To the Rocky Mountains above
Go past the Continental Divide
Below Douglas firs and ...
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Categories:
pinyon, adventure, america, animal, history,
Form: Rhyme
Miniature Juniper
...Although I hardly gave it a thought
I didn't really doubt
our miniature juniper, a bonsai,
would survive our desert vacation.
It likes the dry
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Categories:
pinyon, bird, flower, history, love,
Form: Verse
Grand Canyon
...The Grand Canyon is like the brain
with deep, unexplored fissures and tributaries,
the main route well known by now.
I am walking, walking inside my mind,
a grand canyon, a planet of canyons,...
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Categories:
pinyon, deep, fruit, home, mirror,
Form: Verse
Blackbrush
...Blackbrush -- Coleogyne ramosissima
the dominant understory shrub
in the pinyon-juniper canyons.
Mountain-mahogany -- Cercocarpus montanus and ledifolia.
Single-leaf ash -- Fraxinus anomalus
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Categories:
pinyon, deep, garden, history, ocean,
Form: Verse