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. 

 Whump, thump, of snowy

     waterfalls thundering from pines. 

Then, just my breath.

Soft white eruption:

         cattail seeds rush on their way,

         in Autumnal light.