- it is a peculiar attribute of the human
- to stand erect
- against some vertical edifice
- and measure himself
- year after year
- hermit point
- northernmost
- the wind plays
- the west side
- of a juniper
- and the door to the hut is closed.
- although the house itself has fallen,
- the frame and the door stand firm.
- Y stop
- from here you can see
- a butte mirrored in the states
- of the colorado river
- no reason
- distance
- arroyo con tutti grandé.
- mi amor,
- estu bellow . . . e remoté.
- mohave point
- the wood of dead trees . . .
- the desire of the past
- to keep living;
- the flight of the crow
- at eye level.
- hopi point
- a stand of cypress
- above the seeming standstill of the colorado.
- everything stands to reason
- everything stands as a tribute
- to the efforts of something else
- both fallacious and true
- dependent on what is known,
- suspected and hoped
- about the nature of intent—
- the door to human inquiry.
- sunset
- all that remains of this sheer slice off the horizon
- is a gap
- and me.
- color striates through the clouds behind me.
- a chasm purples below me.
- egocentric are the forms that repeat
- as they pan away from me.
- moran point
- at last the river as it is:
- full-bodied, white water
- unhampered
- by what it’s been through and done.