Wendy Sue Gist poems

Fragments of Southwestern Youth Stink beetles balancebeakson splintered porch.Arizona daze,San Francisco Peakssanctify.Dragonflies flash blueas jelly shoes.Chicken-egg scoopcoop. Sunflowers archrock-hunked roadsthrough ponderosa pine.Jewelry-makerneighbor, turquoise nuggetsmachine drills, echoes. Pine bough huts,Sinagua potsherds,black-on-white patternsfragment underfoot;daydreams dead awakenearthen palms:ontological monsoon. No cell phone, no gps.Sun out time: time-inmoon orb oozes behindMars Hill: no ears ringing, no callsfrom home or to home,not in far-goneforest of…