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 SUNSET IN CHACO..............
Maggi Sullivan Godman, US
I
stand near the warm, hand-dressed sandstone blocks of the outer wall of the
Great Kiva, Casa Rinconada. Breezes rustle the rabbit brush and chamisa—a
raven's raucous cry startles me.
Crimson
and gold streak the sky over the rim of the canyon, and Chaco Wash winds its
water-carved way toward the west. Shadows lengthen—the colors fade. In the
distance a rabbit shrieks, the evening meal of a silent owl.
Starlight
gives me a glimpse of the empty firepits, below, in the depths of the roofless
kiva. A shiver, not entirely from the quickly chilling night air.
fajada
butte
stark against southern sky
the old ones vanished |
