Leaving the pine shade,

sun glares on sandstone outcrop,

warm wind rattles reeds.

 Nonsoon heat ripples.

Down shaded rocks, under pines, 

breeze like cool water.

 The pale mesas

flecked with green, crowned in blue.

Winter Wupatki.

 Backyard bushwacking

Sunflowers sway and glow

as I search for potatoes.

 Ponderosa shadows,

     stretched on eye-watering snow.

Raven lands, blinking.

 AM: Delicate fingers in

          ice-lace, roaming.

PM: Cold concrete remains. 

 Tick-tock of snow 

on my tea flask; Lnick-knock

of Flicker on frosted bark.