glacier

macdonald lake shimmers through montana trees here three nights by the continental divide constantly very bear aware openly unsure what the hell’s next the road will tell  supertramp ways back into canada  banff, jasper on the horizon

chautauqua

chirping forest stillness parents yelling chopped wood burning, blue smoke rising our flames were recycled from campers before

second-time heated spaghetti, extra fresh basil half done cross-stitch taught by my mother

seven inch gummy worm wounds tear across my ribcage waiting to heal slug motion

the sun catches selected objects if you look

national park week

celebrating national park week. a list of parks i visited april 2015-16:

- badlands

- yellowstone

- rocky mountains 

- crater lake

- saguaro 

- joshua tree

- big bend

- arches

- grand canyon

- everglades

- haleakala 

- yosemite 

- petrified forest 

- olympic 

- canyonlands 

on top of the national parks, there are a few national monuments and parks to mention:

- devils tower

- palouse falls

- oregon dunes

- crazy horse 

- imperial dunes 

- white sands

saguaro

prickly, plump stubs reach into the sky densely filling the desert landscape. brownish-red wavy top mountains higher up, fading out further distance. 

turtle doves coo to the new moon slivering. the green state tree frays in silhouette upward to a less saturated, three color gradient sunset. 

a few campsites over, a satisfyingly bad singer strums on his ukulele as the retired american snow birds contently brag.