I. 74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJHptA6p2d
Desert heat, high clouds, and sky74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEs6F6IAxFM
the color of lapis. On this journey,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlg1bUAMcJ
anything seems possible,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9Cglfrf19
so we stop by an ancient cottonwood74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVBbMjYGRc
to kiss. The beauty trembles,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLOLPgD3Q4
doesn't say a word, just watches74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbYaEuFQT0
me, so open. Small birds fly by, flock74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRB5flR7cv
in the shady tree above us. What74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvLAys0L9h
settles in her heart? What congeals?74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJFxlgAkTo
Hope? Despair? Far off, the river churns74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GN017AviP
in its sandy banks, swallows veer, turn74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDGDFQoeJx
in fiery air. Will these kisses seal74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdL8jwkqf1
her to me? I her lover, she my wife?74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXBNMvvbHb
Is all of this a dream, my whole life?
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She is just this side of wonderful,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GTM8eajaf
and suddenly the glamorous world74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIRI9mos9D
fills itself with shining and we laugh74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZcxYlvMpc
at highway monuments that explain74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BBcq4aGpV
how hard the trek had been for Franciscans74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXtXC4VtQ8
in the Indian wilderness, poor fellows—74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7vwdaKmYH
conversion is the devil's own74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xEWGsbED2
work! Then the stones of her dream74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo88ugCxP3j
turn up under her feet, the back74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJ2Gku8V33
of a huge land turtle. I know74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mOoYDJVLO
we must be circling Paradise74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtUGef1ziB
because the ants enter the fleshy petals74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65hAYuwGXk
of the roadside flowers with evident74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloUlMVxZZA
joy and purpose (oh, my dark, pretty one).
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Music, my adored. When is there never74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8aVEbSujt
music? My accordion puffs up74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aEDPdpnMi
with drinkable melodies. I spill74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7XWldIoWl
her tunes into your listening ear,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKY8Z1cu4uj
one after the other: the squeeze-box74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdf3zv2G8TO
enters the dance of the plaintive gypsy74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mqFDep0C0
with its hard rhythms, lilts the back-74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzo2qiy3jsl
breaking labor song the worker croons74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2AINOwapj
to earth, warbles romantic notes of74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjER2qE8EXy
dissolving borders. You melt74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpocVNf76kJ
like a woman beneath her lover's touch.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvr2KBMHFqT
Music is happy and pitiless when74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0Q9aCz6ZQ
it sets fire to combustible souls. Even74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0y2gNHnWuV
the raspy bandoneon's voice is lyric.
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Sacred. Sacred. Sacred. Sacred. (Speak74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1k7zVp1M8E
in a whisper.) We slip into this74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDO1GXIMDij
space half cognizant. The land is very74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUpnKlwZnB
large indeed: bones of the earth74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UdhSKNsxH
worn down, though she is a living thing.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV57YGElm9T
See how she exposes her grace? Antelopes74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9X2tpm57eo
graze on the far plain—their high,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJRGdwPJHR
white tails—the red soil throbs74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4l1mmzmlgN
its slow heartbeat, and the blue sky74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lwQbkHrT7
clears so smartly, perfectly, like74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uB4CjrgIS
radiance. Are the ancestors near?74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwugBDmrBV
What can we know? We decide74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKdO6AabjP
to wander around this prairie, mistaken74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrfR08OEdR
for Utes, buy commodities in little towns.
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Late afternoon we head west along the willow- banked74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWriCEcHvEr
Malheur after the long curve of the Snake River plain. (Above the falls where the Shoshone went to pray74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CQMmgHJaX
we soaked our feet in cold water, and I observed74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1w8MtBIqte
the arch of her brown foot.) Rabbitbrush and sage74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYUbuHGEkz
along the highway, juniper on far hills and bluffs.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCfI6TnovM
Sundown, and dusk falls over the wide basin of land.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡips1RbxKg1
In Burns we eat eggs in a cafe, take a room74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpKtj6bAXf
in the Motel 6. In the dark, I can see74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkq074bqTk6
her black hair, black against the pillows. Its clean74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaBzYH2bb5
scent makes me think of corn. At dawn, I hold her74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFGcjYSs6X
and there are kisses. Then more kisses. Then more74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RMLTR3veH
The day is cold; a north wind blew last night. But74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OXGpvFIsx
the land is open. Rain falls in showers of light.
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Her hand on my thigh, my shoulder,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4E68Zu6GI
in my hair. She leans over to kiss my cheek.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm49gI1sjgB
We look at each other, smile. For miles74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIshH2r9iL
we travel this way, nearly silent, point74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpN2j0HbRr
with eyes or chins at the circling hawk, the king-74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vm91YprR9
fisher on the snag above the swollen74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslUrL2kidG
creek. One night I weep in her arms74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpH2pBj57x
as she cries, "Oh, oh, oh!" because I have touched74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUlQ487Z5A
her scars lightly: throat, belly, breasts.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfGtLpm0sJ
In that communion of lovers, thick sobs74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ygqK9ma0r
break from me as I think of my love74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFFZIvzcEZ
back home, all that I have done74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvMxocwW37
and cannot say. This is the first time74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRXy2crqnk
I have left her so completely, so alone.
- Janice Gould
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