Escalante: The Earth is Naked Here
the earth is naked here
200 million years
revealing themselves
monolithic Navajo red cliffs
grey ash white sandstone
volcanoes floods
torrents carving and cracking
and smoothing their way
ripples pocket marks
of water and wind
the towering rock
folds crevices canyons
settled for the moment
miracle of juniper and pinion pine
cactus wildflowers
winding roots
through blazing rock
and somehow, for now
we slight creatures
get to walk the ancient trails
rivers and time have wrought
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I love the “walking through time” of this!and it’s winding nature.
I love how nature towers over “we slight creatures”
Good description, put me there on all levels.