-Traveler-

1. 

How softly distance paints the Rockies.

Behind us the echoes dissect  

Our impressions in young disobedience.

The twilight 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

Through the smoke of the wood.

                                           For the young women of Colorado 17

                                           Denver, Boulder, 1969?