Hiking
a cotton-tail leaps across the trail, pauses
beneath gray sage
my calves hard as pink quartz
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blue-belly lizard
skitters ahead
heat
waves
*
boot
prints
"...part of the world
not fallen from it"
Frank Parker
Big Sur, CA
29 August 2001
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