It’s interesting that no matter how things change and time progresses, things seem to remain essentially the same…

Road to Nowhere

rode the loop today
to El Camino Del Cerro
the road to nowhere
I wonder where
(here here where
where there there
–Stooges)

crossed over the
Santa Cruz with
its reclaimed water
trickling along its
edge river otherwise
desert dry

ocotillo hedge blooms
red after rain
no blooms today
inpenerateable
stems and thorns
nature’s armor

keeps soft-skin
in or out
spiny prickly walls
fenced-in gardens
animal pens

heading home
road to nowhere
in the rearview
chilly breezes head-
wind slows me down
even at the zenith of Sol

–LE – 2/2/23