Grass, tinged greenish white
   sway in the old, rounded wash
like sunlit ripples.

Cluster of Gambel Oak:
  Here's where the trail's dirt
  changes from tan to red.

  Old sea bed juts out,
glaring white,
  among dark. green pines.

The red trail climbs on
       mottled in old pine needles,
              striped with tree shadows.