Too Little

“Dance”
Great Sand Dunes

4/10/12

 Not enough, she said.

 

To watch the Pink Moon rise above

 Or walk barefoot through sand and

 Sense the cool and the heat

 Or taste the grit.

“A Bend of Mendano Creek”
Great Sand Dunes

 Too little, she said.

 

 To bask in the contrast

 Of colors and light and shadow

 And changing form too quick for the

 Pace of an eye.

 

 Insufficient, she said.

 

To venture to the crevices and rolls

 That always seem further than once thought

 And require a steady plod and rising pulse

 Simply to reach.

“Apostrophe”
Great Sand Dunes

 Wanting, she said.

 

 To see the brave, strong sunflowers

 That manage with little encouragement

 And give life to another season and a favorable

 View of conditions.

“Rise and Fall”
Great Sand Dunes

 Incomplete, she said.

 

 Far more of the ordinary odyssey of

 Extraordinary perspectives that dare tease

 And remind to be wary and mindful and

 Drink the world in. 

 

“Inked”
Great Sand Dunes

 

 In advance, she said.

 

 Of that which vanishes.

 

“Captured”
Great Sand Dunes

 

These pictures were taken at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve near Alamosa, Colorado.  The dunes are the tallest in North America and cover 330 square miles against the backdrop of the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains.  Estimates of their age vary from 12,000 years to over a million years.