Sky Mesa You can be Amazing

he steps back as the girl inspects his gift; for a moment he feels like the courting birds of paradise of his home, posed tentatively on one leg as they await their paramour’s verdict.

light from the river dances in her eyes; so clear they call back to the sharp edges of a mountain cut from sky blue backdrop.

she closes her eyes and he takes advantage of the moment to drink in her features fully — as a drunkard might desperately sup his poison.

it is too early yet to plant the first seeds; soto moves back towards the bank, leaving the girl with her fresh cut blade of purple flowers.