Beside Nipton Pondby Derek Pollard & Shannon Salter On the cabin's canvas Roof, the praying mantis Shadow is the praying Mantis, and it moves From one pane of light to Another Softly behind Our eyes, a quiet ache Opens bright yellow sun It is morning Our feet Search for the one cool square Of mattress, the whole fire Inside juniper blue Ours to join this sky so Utterly full The Horizon's Beveled edge, our shadow In the hands of a small Boy, train tracks through the Desert field, the dry grass Become glass in the light |