Poem: Montecito Hike

 

Montecito Hike

 

a camphor of oleander,

musky greenish-blue,

and sweat-laden dust

haunt sanctioned swerves  

of lupine and wild radish.

 

osprey/gull-like birds

figure-eight over acres 

of deadlocked pale husks,

straw-blonde tresses

on the skulls of thicks clods,

fields and fields and fields of them,

tilled dirt so disturbed it shines.

 

a khaki man with big epaulettes

orchestrates tractors and tosses 

a braggadocio of mean sun and cruel earth;

and yet, he shall render heaven.

 

above his head,

sanitized on layered slopes well-shrubbed,

fine-kilned constructions

mantle the harnessed hills 

with a godliness of haciendas.

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