From a spring trip to New Mexico
April11
Sugar drifts on watermelon mountains
Sifts onto pinon-studded hills
A brief taste of winter
And welcome water for this precious northern desert
Pearlescent clouds scudding south
Seeded with rain that falls as small grains onto the steaming pavement
Turquoise treasure to remind me of these wondrous skies and this time in my hearts’s homeland