Mesa Verde The earth is salmon-colored here, cracked into plates like the shell of a giant turtle It is a place I've seen in a dream. Our faces tingle with the heat of sun, the fiery way we look at...

Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives — tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the...

RECOVERY It was as if the rain could feel itself falling through the air today, as if the air could actually feel its own dampness, the breeze could hear a familiar voice explaining the emptiness to the dark elms that...

The Heart of Herakles Lying under the stars, In the summer night, Late, while the autumn Constellations climb the sky, As the Cluster of Hercules Falls down the west I put the telescope by and watch Deneb Move towards the...

Hurricane It didn’t behave like anything you had ever imagined. The wind tore at the trees, the rain fell for days slant and hard. The back of the hand to everything. I watched the trees bow and their leaves fall...

Ode to Salt I saw the salt in this shaker in the salt flats. I know you will never believe me, but it sings, the salt sings, the hide of the salt plains, it sings through a mouth smothered by...