BADLANDS DESERT SUNRISE  (3-25-1989, at the 'Oh My God' hot springs in California's Anza Borrego Desert Badlands)

     
the eastern range      
spread skyward      
awash  ablaze  aflame      
with airbrushed fires      
of rising suns      
molten rays      
painting daybreak      
orange  pink        
purple and blue      
riding intensely      
up into and against      
the waking bottoms      
of drifting clouds      
stretched out      
over this desert      
north to south      
like migrating        
myths and legends      
of ancient gods      
called off to war      
marching forth      
to future storms      
with tridents raised      
and long hair flowing      
on horseback at dawn      
galloping on        
full charge and        
splashing through        
flank deep waters      
of surging        
electric sky morning      
while off in        
the paler southwest      
a smoke blue        
whale sails abreast      
as it slowly      
unfurls  dissolving      
into twisting  purple      
twin chinese dragons      
high above        
the crooked crest      
of a still      
sleeping      
indigo mountain      
not yet reached      
by the life        
giving warmth        
of rising suns        
sacred  golden        
gilded touch      
to render it      
newly reborn      
with each      
and every      
recyclic dawn      
of awakened      
new day soon      
to come  
oh wow  
ahh yes  
now  
here
at last
has come
full hoop
full circle
to open
unfold
and
flowingly
paint itself
out
in this
new day
again