Crossing Lines
by Wendy Gist
low-sky country
tortilla-white clouds crossing
Arizona
red-garnet cliffs
drifting like strung pearls
on the nape of jade sky
auric light
blooms noon
silver-blue brushed hills and
sunflower lavished heat shine
raven eye
shared
as
hitchhiker leans against plywood
sign STEAM CORN
rug woven roadside
blue-denim clothesline
free-range graze
royal royal blue
lake moves in puerperal
silence