Foreward
In this fore-word
I find myself cast back in time...
as I remember seeing icicles in the desert
while a
young child rising before the sun did
at my grandfather's side on the back porch
as
slender stalagmites
hung from under the eaves
a sense of awe and excitement that
some invisible
giant had been at work while I slept
transforming the drab view of
sage brush and sand
into a fariy land of straightened unicorn horns
and prismatic
hues cast from the diffident orb
rising from the long blue line of hills
as water-usually
so absent waited in unmitigated
splendor for us to rise and watch them drip away
captured,
immobilized, shy...
staying such a brief moment in time
to have remained for a lifetime
within my mind.
I would be impoverished without it
without knowing
why.