Tag: Loop
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Mid-June Morning Ride
Mid-June Morning Ride Under a pristine skyBlue misty mountainsAll around While solar stampedBar and QR codesMark our definitivePositions on the longRoad to nowhere Another of life’s ironies Roadrunner cocked andReady for the starting gunPeering down that long road Prairie dog pups skitteringOver the coarse dry groundAs heat waves riseMaking the distance rippleLIke a mirage Heading…
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Sunday Ride – Day-after No Kings Day
The Day-after – Sunday Ride Prairie dog zips fromOne entrance to another ofIts underground warren Skink playing chicken with meOn the hot sun-dappled pavementExits stage left just in the nick of time Sentinel bird of preyOn the highest branch ofThe skeleton of the tallest Dead witch-tree –LE – 6/15/25 Metaphor for the current zeitgeist?
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End Of May Ride On The Tucson Loop
End Of May Ride Sol’s ultraviolet raysPinking my already tan legsAs the sky marblesOver the mountainsAll the way around Prairie dog pupWizzed by on the peripheryHightailing it home, no doubt Motorized ‘bikes’ flew byOnce again, out of the blueDestroyed the ambianceOf an otherwise peaceful day Almost hit a large June bugThat crossed the pathJust in…
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Helmet Brims & E-bikes
Helmet Brims & E-bikes helmet brimsso largethey seemout of place remind me offirefighter helmetsjust missing theofficial shield used to seeone or twoin a whole weekof riding now they’re wornby nearly halfthe cycling crowdanother fad like the E-bikesspeeding byas if the riders’pedaling actually moves the bikerather than thethrottle at theirfingertip both of thesefads are expensivenot cheapbegs…
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Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day Weekend Sol’s morning raysCutting through thePristine blue skyBake the pavementAnd ground betweenThe long shadowsTo the mountain vistasAll around Holiday weekendI suspect mostAre sleeping inThe morning rideAlmost soundlessBut for a couple of hawksComplaining aboutScarcity of prey Even the most recentIterations of BrittlebushAre going blowsyAs the first summerHoliday weekendOf 2025Begins its inevitableWinding down Late in…
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Summer’s Early Raid
Summer’s Early Raid summer’s early raidcontinues as temps soarwith blindinglyblue skies thank human ingenuityfor polarized lensesmitigating headachesfrom the harsh glare off the windows and wallsof me casa and yoursfrom highway liquid-looking blacktopmelting into the horizon to a mirage of wateron a scorchedand wind-blowndesert floor while faint wisps of whitefar out over the westernmountains gives an…
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Riding And Sweating
Riding And Sweating clear cerulean domewith no cloudsscanning Sol’s barcodefrom the seat ofmy tadpole trikegenerates a 401 error yellow Mesquite blooms are now mostly gone replaced by an abundance of seed pods decorating their longleafy-green bows Palo Verde in full bloomtheir seed pods to arrive soonas a third or fourth iteration ofBrittlebush is blossomingand now,…
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Cool April Morning Ride
Cool April Morning Ride a cool April morning witha few puffy-white cloudsabove the surrounding mountainswhile the sky above isa translucent blue explosions of yellow bloomsdraping various trees and bushesin the mazes edging both sidesof the Tucson Loopeven in the dry riverbed early Brittlebushalready gone blousywhile the yellow explosionsof Palo Verde are stilla few weeks away…
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The Tucson Loop In Spring
The Tucson Loop In Spring the dazzling morning suntilts in 30 degreesoff the eastern horizonwith Aries as backdrop long shadows crossthe north/south pathand the cloudless brightblue sky goes on forever reclaimed water cutsa zigzag path downthe western edge of theotherwise dry Santa Cruz the surrounding mountainsseen through the brightgreen veils of newMesquite leaves a couple…
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Milky Skies, See What We See
Milky Skies, See What We See milky skies forour mid-day ridemisty-blue mountaintopssilhouettes in the south northern mountainsnot so misty, by halfand to our leftthe dragon’s teeth glintof the Tucson range a roadrunner streaksacross our pathexits stage rightrunning in circles as we passas if caught in our slipstreamha! a cyclist’s dream human coyotes on electric bikesare…
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