Desert night. Mountain silhouettes.
The headlights project my loneliness.

Raucous grackles flock to treetops.
The sun settles beyond mountain peaks.

Rays of morning sun light the garden,
warming chilled birds of paradise.

SIERRA

Such rays
that streak from past
those mountain peaks, to light
the clouds above this valley, so
amaze.

CLOISTER

Enshrined
in ivy vines,
a nymph of stone. She smiles
through seasons wet and dry, maintains
her poise.

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