
deep in the arizona desert
lucid dreaming atop a red rock mountain
seeing 100 miles in all directions
for the first time since i was 17
and leaving my old kentucky farm home
i saw scene after scene
episode after episode
of my early life
and for the first time
they weren’t all filled with pain
from atop the arizona red rock mountain
i visited the backwoods kentucky wilderness of my childhood
and i remembered and experienced again
the beauty of wandering alone
down old dirt roads across wildflower fields through green woods
i was 23 years old
when memory became more than a painful dispute with the past
ron whitehead
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