Sonoran Stroll by Kieke Norianegra
Sonoran Stroll
by Kieke Norianegra
Fine, red caliche
records bootprints
perhaps to be discovered
in twenty centuries.
Amidst cryptogam,
juniper,
coyote signs,
knapped flint,
faint sounds from ancients.
Higher
toward mesa feet,
shadowy topography.
Savannah cuneiform
waiting to be read.