Today, Friday, November 13, 2020, I spent several hours hiking the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park. Below are a few of the photographs I took, and also a poem that I started to write while bathing in the sunlight atop one of the rocks.
Come out to the earth with me
And open your soul to foresee
Cathedrals cut from a desert sea
For past is future out here
Look back with the eyes of a seer
Let go whatever you may hold dear
And now let yourself be still
Your soul the winds alone fulfill
Timelessness your one remaining thrill
Please, do not try to catch her
This moment will never recur
Her kiss as faint as a lost whisper
But carved into jagged stone
Walls only the heavens have known
Picture of a goddess on her throne
So worship her in this place
Timelessness clothed in rock and grace
Turn up your eyes, and see your own face
And then you will say aloud:
The desert wind blows very still
And there is forever nothing else
