"Micaceous Clay"

Cibola City of Gold

Pots of clay

Gold flakes

Decorating

Jigsaw homes

Horse-shoe of history

Pinyon smoke

Kiva ovens baking

Ceremonial

Dancing feet

Winter’s frost

Red rocks amongst

Snow blankets

Red Black Corn

Drying

People wrapped in blankets

Long shadows move against

Sunlight

Burnished from ice

Crystals

Dancing in your eyes

Beneath Cottonwood

Bridge

Where tourists

Cannot go

Between

Creek waters

Gurgle happily

Exposing

Virgin banks of

Gold clay

Fueling

Tourist dollars

At

Taos Pueblo

My first

Home.

-Fin-

DS Baker