Amanda Hayden
without it written in ancient scrolls, who knew how to collect water from seep springs and
carve channels in bedrock, how to rip mighty echoes through the canyon
to the horizon, to their ancestors, whose smooth shoulders stretched into wings
excerpt from: Mesa Verde, American Saunter (2024)
“My aim is to saunter, not hike” – John Muir
WINDY CHicken Poet 