Pima Canyon

"People ask the way to Cold Mountain
but roads don't reach Cold Mountain..." – Cold Mountain












A little piece of Pima Canyon
stands right here at Centennial Gardens in the city
shale rock stacked sideways
as if in sheets planted by pasque
and the drooping yellow drop of columbine
soil so full of pebbles and dust that if you closed
your eyes and the whirring of the bus
faded you would find the path back to the canyon