Moonrise Over Red Rocks

Marie Marchand
1 min readJul 18, 2020

The Head and the Heart, July 18, 2019

Photo by UsamaNeal on Unsplash

sandstone outcrops cradled us
in their carved fire belly
as we danced on waves of red ash
dry streamers, vortices
a sheath of glimmering stars above

with arms raised to the darkening sky
we could not distinguish song from wind
nor our bodies from the breezy…

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Marie Marchand

Poet Laureate of Ellensburg, WA. Author of Gifts to the Attentive from Winter Goose Publishing. mishiepoet.com @mishiepoet