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Looking up to mountains and big sky...
Power lines marking the distance...
Heading north with lucent winter sun glaring down...
Off the exit westward dusty road to timelessness...
Messages via a previous era...
To mine at foothills of Chuckwalla Mountains...
Surveying the expanse from shady trail nook...
Mountain range in distance...
Still wind silencing windmills on desert floor...
Round the bend higher to the unfamiliar...
Meandering trail enlivened for a spell by downpour...
Alluvial fan cascading cactus to valley below...
Over Arizona high desert windswept buttes...
Hooves steady on cracked earth to valley floor...
Sun beaming spring on crest of butte...
Green carpets natural desert rock garden...
Surveying vast valley with Saguaros as guideposts...
Stop to take water, regain senses, wait in shade...
Go thirty miles past railroad crossing to water tank...
Leaning pole and wires on tilted rugged landscape...
