Dark clouds hang
over
white dusted mountains

Roadside flowers
ropes of roses twirled
round the caution curve sign

Blue crosses
with red and white
plastic blossoms

Pale painted ones
wooden with fading
snowball sand-verbena

Long dank daffodils,
yarrow
angels’ trumpets

Memorials entwine pine
and gradual disappearing   
Memories

What mothers’ children
Lost
on this curvy mountain road

Where clouds meet the snow
above golden cottonwoods 
turning gray