-Traveler-

1. 

How softly distance paints the Rockies.

Behind us the echoes timelessly dissect  

Our past impressions in young disobedience.

The distance brushes 

An orange tincture to the peaks.

The mountain’s ember. 

The sweep of the valley is lightly-

Colored.

2.

What warms from the hearth 

Is what moves through the room

Is the warmth of the wood

At the strike of the fire.

What warms at the hearth

Is what lives in the room 

Which is finding its way

From the smoke of the wood.

                                           for the girls of Colorado 17

                                          Denver, Boulder, 1969?