Down The Dusty Road Poem by jay bates

Down the Dusty Road

By Jay Bates



It is always said,
Behind the mountains lies more
Mountains and mountains


Beyond the Escalante
Into the Waterpocket Fold
Mountains and ghostly shore


Down the dusty road
From the parched Henry's
Into apocalyptic times not told


There lies petrified wood and coprolites
And now a whole stone tree protrudes
From the days of dinosaurs and trilobites


We are awed by thee, of ancient lands and sea

Down the dusty road we go
We beings of unjustified vanity