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 Aug 2020 CK Baker
jordan
landscape
 Aug 2020 CK Baker
jordan
dawn breaks coral-fire
valley-gathered fog
soaked with sunrise

river exhaling mist
currents toppling downward
cracked limestone bedrock
canyons split by time

desert-barren foothills
frozen waves of earth
breaking on blue ridges
bristling thick with fir-tops
cornered coyote mountains
snag wayfaring clouds
compiling afternoon thunder
 Aug 2020 CK Baker
jordan
barren canyon
echo-haunted walls
thirsty sand-blown dust

skeletal branches
stripped of life
sloughing-bark itch

shriveled snakeskin
crackles in disintegration
snagged on ancient sagebrush

but when her teardrop falls
the love buried in his desert heart
springs to unquenchable life
 Aug 2020 CK Baker
Fay Slimm
If first light following night's release
seizes every day's dawning
to increase
the force of nature's fresh air feast
which overrides
residues of human sleep drifting
and provides more
meaning to a deep-stretch revival

why not breathe it in ?


If delight upon which one stumbles
at first light gives the urge
contained in that
humbling moment as dawn takes
up reigns cleansed by
dark silence to draw in morning air
and purge dream-dried
remains in lungs, heart and mind

why not breathe it in ?



If alchemy, in waking at first light
outweighs and changes
last cosy minutes under a duvet
by urging fresh ways
to adventure which illuminate life


why not breathe it in ?
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