May 2021
Author's Note: Here are two poems from the desert mountain plateau of the Calamalli mountains
in Baja California and Scammon Lagoon when the peninsula was still largely wilderness (appx 60 years ago).
At Scammon Lagoon
Among the bones
dancing and whispering,
among the bones
chasing thoughts,
whispering along corridors
of pillared bone,
a great whale’s curved ribs
bleached coarse
by endless sunrises,
scorching days and
furious sunsets,
winds come and go,
forever sanding the bones
burying, then exposing
lives unknown, unspoken –
impossible to forget.
Mirage
Nature scoffs, dismisses my complaint
the day is hot and dry.
Her essence, not earth bound as mine,
drifts across the dry lake bed
in shimmering gossamer gown
as her train of silver threads
sweeps blue mountains into the sky.
©2021 Earl Vincent de Berge
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