Dark Powder On The Trail
Born of a volcanic eruption,
covered with ash and pumice,
fused into spires and rock formations
at the crossroads of the
Chihuahuan and Sonora deserts.
Bonita Canyon, refuge to the Apaches,
later to become the Faraway Ranch,
managed by a blind woman,
Lillian was her name,
in a wonderland of rocks.
The land of standing rocks,
A backdrop to a biological paradise
through modern history —
returned to ashes by Horseshoe 2 fire
leaving dark powder on the Bonita Trail.
Wildflowers, the first to return
adding color to the black and gray,
first symbolized by a flower
left by the fire’s inferno
to dodge the debris flows.
Time will heal the Chiricahua wounds
not by man’s clock of numbers,
but to Mother Nature’s cycles
linked to the brain in our hearts
creating a day out of time.
kenne
creating a day out of time.
kenne
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