Everland

Canyonlands National Park – Photo by Gary Baird

the American west

aeons on display

epochs marked by

divine hands of time

endless vistas

exhibit existence

its layered creation

gives grandeur to

powerful portraits

persistent with

water and wind

at their gradual work

of transforming

the earth framed

beneath the blue

glorious arch

of the firmament

here is forever

made tangible

granting to man

the humility born

of his relative

paltry significance