a golden shovel after Richard Wright

We went to see hoodoos, arches, and the

mesas in what was once ocean

and now metamorphosed to red in

the middle of our continent. Yes, last June

I saw the latest formations while inhaling

the parched climate of erosion and

seams of aquatic fossils then exhaling

waters back into the air. But

I have faith in fossils unlike those who never

believe sediment. Rocks are the ones speaking.