GRAND CANYON SKETCHES

Day glo orange cones
Bulldozer roars and rattles
Forest stands silently

King size bed
Across the continent
Coffee machine is waiting

Murmur of billings and charges
Who owes whom
Minds busily keep track

Forest stands silent
While busy minds chatter
No one sees the elk

Scant patches of snow
The forest quietly waits
Hot summer breeze arrives

Red crumpled rocks
Dissolve on hillside
Released into vastness

Hunter and Rabbit
Naming the unnameable
Weathered rocks are such

Dayglo orange cones
Offset olive green leaves
Warm gray forest floor

Sad old refinery
Rusty smokestacks
No jobs here

Fredonia
Polygamy
Can you say speed trap?