New Mexican Ghazal

Full moon rises amber upon golden augmentations of the night

Autumnal ascent, Fire enters navy blue of night

Umber, ruby, amethyst, against marcasite

Colors captured in skies of day and night

Turquoise, carnelian, onyx, silver fetishes call

Desert jewelry for sale at a empty roadside stand at night

Stars glow in shattered shadowed escalations

The hills backdrop plains like curtains at night

Yellow and red flowering fruit upon fishhook barrels

along desert washes under full moon long shadowed night