layers of desert color
hillside layered colors
hillside layered colors: beige, brown, gray
red-orange streaked with salt or gypsum white
sparkling with mica
now tinted green with spring’s intrepid coming of life
each layer years centuries, millennia, eons deep
most horizontal, some tilted from vertical as though whole
mountains were heaved upward awkwardly
another spring season in the succession of time
so vast it is beyond my comprehension
mjNordgren 2/22/2022 Scottsdale, Arizona