The Santa Cruz

Dormant grasses
On its shoulders
Patches of green shrubs and trees

The jagged stones
The coarse sands of
The dry riverbed

Uneven remains
Like shadows of footprints
Human and creature

Smudged, almost nonexistent
Furrows marking the passage of
Wagon wheels, homeless carts, and ATV’s

Marking the passage of years
Laying along the riverbed
Like the hourglass sands of time

–LE