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Working with wind at Canyon de Chelly
(with a nod to D'von Charley)
Flute to lips near precipice rim,
Navajo man bends a bit,
catches breeze, sends haunting song
down to ruins, stream, jimsonweed,
salt cedar, Russian olive trees.
Echoes dance off sandstone cliffs,
drift past women herding goats.
Ducks etched green, red, gold
on canyon walls, wait to swim
should Chinle Wash flow wide again.
Tourists buy photos, CDs. Navajo youth
play small flutes under pinyon trees.
Timothy Pilgrim
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(published by Howl -- copyrighted Timothy Pilgrim photo: shadow above Canyon de Chelly and Spider Rock) |
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Timothy Pilgrim, a native of Montana and retired university journalism professor living in Bellingham, Wash., is a Pacific Northwest poet and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have been accepted more than 500 times by journals such as Toasted Cheese, Mad Swirl, Cirque, Santa Anna River Review, Windsor Review, Hobart, Otoliths and Prole Press in the U.S. Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. He is the author of Mapping water and Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems, which the back cover calls “a 10 on any Richter imagination scale.”
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