Photo Day / Clouds in the Canyon

Paradise is painted blue

Desert Orange / Sky

The view from my street.

Sometimes I chase clouds

Photo Day / Storm Cell Over the Desert

Clouds 

Clouds are important to a plain landscape:

those familiar shapes that skate above the horizon,

trailing shadows that examine the featureless plateau,

extracting details that cannot be seen on a clear day,

adjusting our foolish estimates of near and far.

 

A stranger who trifles with our two-part scheme

of land and sky risks losing the outer world, the fate

of isolation best embraced as a gift.