Sleep Softly in the pink heat Bleeding from the evening softly fleeing from the Blue East to the coast lets just lay low
Steep Somewhere in a half-dream Buried in the line between the chaparral and Pine trees All our clarity waits deep laced in the seams
The mountainside will show its jagged face to you As the shadows travel slow through the golden afternoon Until I got up close I’d never known The brushbloom glow
Scattered on the desert floor Every year the patience of the colors makes me Love them more Like floorboards in our homes
Every glimpse of light I see Is just as soon a memory And though my logic longs for absolutes I’m only sure of moments I once knew
And all the things that I’m not proud of but I know I don’t regret
They have made the contrast clear Every year the faces of these people grow more dear to me They make me see They make me