eighties rockstar hair
in a black leather jacket
she told of God’s love
lonely dirt road
and a forgotten tunnel
wants a railway
gray molars
in a desert jaw bone
swallow blue sky
clay, ash, sand
their panorama reaches
the blue skyline
buttes and pińon
I weave through white canyons
hurrying home
a lego Ridge
red below and white on top
landscape memories
nose to nose,
white Mercedes vans
speed westward
runway ramps
wait with deep gravel
for smoky prey
elephant's paw
almost hidden by the sand
smiling, I know
snow topped mesas
mirrored in the wide river,
final autumn days
the eastern sky
pale blue streaked with pink
snowcapped peaks
a pink morning
swallows the ascending jet
vapor trail and all