Breadth

Breadth

Breadth of this land,

Would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it.

From one coast to the center

From fog enveloping everything

to red cliffs swallowing us all to

sandstone glinting

impassive

Mesa to prairie.

One land, 

not mine, not yours.

Its own,

enduring even our ambivalence,

even our small fears,

even this, to

enfold us again,

to keep

driving.

Photo 7/31/13 Old Route 64, Arizona