Desert Meditation

Have you ever watched
rain in a desert,
the first drops
before the ground is moist?

The earth releases
a small puff of dust
as each drop
impacts the ground.

Magical Realism Comes to the Desert

With unexpected rain
in southwest Colorado
near the hamlet of Dove
the mundane gives way to the magical
and there it is
a pink horse

glorious in its pinkness,
a horse which might once have been white

before it rolled in the red earth
but only might have been,

one can't ever be sure.

Rancho de Taos, New Mexico