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Briefly
today moist air
thick with desert grime
cannot veil
sweet naked mountain
by my side
august sun floods
the soft path
a wisp
blood and nerve through
pulsing sand
stealth light
wanes to winter
fragile life shortens
too soon
wilderness stoops
long shadows
beneath the grave footfall
one more thirsty
gated oasis
Nancy Scott Campbell
ThePalmPoet@verizon.net
Extinction
old worlds slip
beneath the cold
cobblestone of La Paz
long ago lands layer
lower
fold and fracture
in the matter of
mines
men barely larger
than ants tunnel down
their coal unearthed
warms the kids room
backyard barbecues
nine foot beaver
wooly mammoth and
mother
char grill
an evening meal
now
I remember
you feet first
fast on a gurney
once rowdy life
huddles in your huge
brown eyes turned
to mine tender
last look
futile
Nancy Scott Campbell
ThePalmPoet@verizon.net
Survival
everyone here slogged together from pale
days ancient swamp long dissolved in desert
somehow during that drying time tortoise
threw together a roof of ribs
now around her revel incredibly
content single cells who ooze
mucilaginate trails holding damp
this hot skeletal earth among
rock that intruded before camel and sloth
men shuffle the joshua the cholla
rupture delicate spaghetti roots men
in harmony with cement-hard latrines
build dry little roads intrusion
holding hot once damp harmony
Nancy Scott Campbell
ThePalmPoet@verizon.net
Nancy Scott Campbell has lived in Appalachia, Oregon, Hawaii and now, Palm Springs.
She is a published poet, physical therapist and mediator. Nancy enjoys hiking, snow shoeing, and has a gift for just sitting around.
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