Solstice Visions[1]

Deserted cliff dwellings
whistle loud and clean
over geological time
eroded dreams remain
the wadi runs through
dry rock bed land
wailing away under silent
stars and moon


Coyote serenade eternal
landscape crawls away
snake skeletons in sand
bony clean remains
where eskers sprinted
glaciers rushed
land thirst slaked
quenched by dust
beneath wistful streams
the stars and the moon

Sweet bed of rocks
soft dust blanket
desolate friends
accelerate time
the last drop
evaporates
lonely unobserved—
mating scorpions dance
a whirlpool whispered
sacred time eternal balance—
shadows take flight
like the stars and the moon


Photo: by Caitlin Brown, Strawberry Moon (full moon on summer solstice) taken from our garage roof, 6/20/2016

[1] ©Tim Brown 2016, “North Star to Heaven”