Pirouettes, minarets, farfel and pie
The face of the Moon in a warm autumn sky
The babble of brooks where the great heron stabs
The clicking and clacking of blue scuttle-crabs
Volcanoes and vortexes, wind in the night
Banyan trees bluster by firefly light
Mist in the valleys where old redwoods sleep
Ten thousand years of secrets they keep.

Little Claire, way out there
Amongst the cactus and scree
Where the rattlers throng
And the javelina song
Fills the shade of the Joshua Tree.