Albuquerque, New Mexico, is home to the largest standing cottonwood forest in the US. Bosque, means forest, and it stands on either side of the Rio Grande.

Above me
In Cottonwood limbs
I hear
Crinkly leafed voices
Pushed out
The Bosque Mouth
By the wind
Beside me
In Rio Grande gestures
I see
Swiftly moving colors
Of Bosque blood
In the water
Below me
In hard crumbled earth
I feel
Pounding thunder
Of Bosque rhythm
In the ground
All around me
In many shaped sizes
I taste
Intense presence
Of Bosque truth
In the fire
Inside me
Across the great mystery
I smell
The fall’s surrender
To Bosque death
In sacred ethers
Thank you, Spirit of greatness for living in the Bosque and me.
MY LIFE WORK, if I can get it: owning my shadow to prevent the spread of fake news
And
Extremism
And
Releasing my gold gifts