Milestone Basin
Following afternoon and burros uphill
through granite and gooseberry until
Brewer's lupine and lodgepole give way
to meadows and foxtail pine, the slopes
awash in corn lilies, mountain sorrel, blue
gentian and grass long and lush from snowmelt
and a week's rain, rivulet flows to
ephemeral,
courses over earth, finds boulders, old
channels,
crosses rock, cascades to whitewater and
noise,
below, a Clark's nutcracker eviscerates
nuts,
music turning to bursts of yellow, black,
violet
shooting stars, long fingers of
green,
bouquets of paintbrush and columbine
ringed by purple-coned whitebark pine.
-ergo
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