The Path of the San Miguel

The constant exhale
of the San Miguel

through every word
and easy smile
and ten exhausted
summer eyes at day’s end

lends mountain peaks
and bridal veils,
white places I’ve seen
but never been,

crawling through rocks
that make the water red.

2012
Placerville, Colorado

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