Me, and my children are in Utah now. Crossing over the U&I border.
I read, “Do your work, Elder Kerry!” Red, plastic party-cups arrange the farewell message in cyclone fencing--exploit the overpass walkway above. Extraction of wisdom-teeth is mandatory before elders serve. I know in Mormon country it is permissible to break rules when it means love.
We drive the 80 MPH posted speed through a sea of houses, stippled with hundreds of matching white steeples, and as many billboards, of extravagant diamond-wedding-sets, reveals a glitzed up version of eternal union.
Brigham Young’s dream translates to eight lane gates. Godspeed kingdoms-end, in straight lines, full speed ahead. In hives, the honey is syrupy and the effort odorous.
A peculiar people held within animus-zeniths outside the sight of killer bees.
I imagine these forget the steepness of their mountains.
Dead seas take eras to evaporate--epochs of brine shrimp and Terry Tempest Williams. Bewildered founders, in fearful white, repute the saplings: Chinese Elm and Russian Olive. My own grandparents called them junk trees.
Pioneer children sang as they walked and walked and walked. Babies dropped, pipe-organs pitched and the march goes on. Salvador Dali couldn’t have invented the visions born of heat and ice on the tail of extermination orders. Scorched sweeps through powdered soil. Those who’ve never made the walk are ignorant to the cheat-grass and how it works its way through white cotton socks—digs straight into the flesh and won’t let go.
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Haha I enjoyed that... enjoy Utah... or idaho. Whatever direction you're heading.
:) Thanks! Looks like you spend a lot of time enjoying the Utah scenery.
Incredibly vibrant piece. Every sense (yes, every one out of the twelve in turn and then in unison to exhale the vision into place) has come alive.
Thank you. Happy a writer with your talent offers me compliments :)
Damn, very nice indeed! Lots of great visuals going on here, very vibrant, very evocative.
Thanks, Daniel. Glad you could see all :)
Utah 😄
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