elf owls
nesting
in the stately Saguaro
a vermillion sunset
the old gold mine
abandoned in the desert
a laughing baby
heat wave—
no money left
to buy bottled water
strolling through the park,
her shade umbrella in hand—
summer butterfly
a ramshackle house
beneath the cottonwoods
laundry in the wind
a faint trickle
in the wide arroyo
dust devils
only wheel tracks
among the mesquite—
Aqua Fria River
racing through brush
the roadrunner disappears
wildflowers in bloom
along Indian Trail
the skull of an ox
a speck of silver
lightning strikes
through billowed gray clouds—
Mogollon Rim
