Snow pack dissolves, shrinking icecaps
Trickles, connects with succinct spring
Runs down frigid, joins brook
Babbling, descends to stream
Meanders past meadow land
With butterfly ****, rippling grasses
Flows through tributary into river
Enters the rocky canyon
Cliffs high as cotton clouds
Jagged, angular, shadowed sunlight
Chilly air rising off splashing rocks
Echoes of rushing, rumbling
Fresh scent of Blue Spruce, sappy pine cones
Churning white water, mile long
Cutting rocky gorge
Raging river travels with purpose reverberates around bend
Water falls towards paradise
Pummels hard to form pool
Surrounded by grassy fronds of Deerhair bulrush, Hydrangea, Lady Rue and Button Bush trees
My secret sanctuary