Taking Ron’s truck home
Capture these days
The desert sun and the indian miles
Durango, Flagstaff … the San Luis Valley
All the hours Kathi and I talked and made love
The evenings there in other cities
The day we bussed across southern Colorado
and walked thru Colorado Springs
and, finally, the flight from Denver
and the rocky mountain’s massive lines
Ron and Sally’s trailer, Kathi and I, and they
the easy friendship and how, smoking grass,
I saw Kathi’s spirit shine so clearly
Hugh Prather’s book, we read …
across the Arizona desert
in the Durango motel
and in the Trailways bus
oblivious to those around us
Dinners and smiles in Flagstaff
making love driving … and atop Wolf Creek pass
Sunshine hours and days pressed, living,
between the beginning and end of our journey
Here on the ground again, with Colorado just four hours old
it all seems forever distant
But here the impress of Kathi’s spirit remains
with its honesty and passion and intelligence
and, most of all, with its free standing love.
gallagher
Long Beach – about Kathi K. & I going to
Colorado
06-13-78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —