I have woken up
in a Nevada casino,
on some highway in Oregon,
in a small town in Idaho,
and the desert of Utah.
Or was it New Mexico?
Seen beautiful places,
too beautiful for feeble words...
Cannot describe the scene without a fumble
Small places, far from the cities
The type of a place where
grocery store, post office, gas station
are all in one building
More homes than stores and hang out spots
I have seen places of beauty
that haunt the tired mind
I have not traveled in years
Looking at photographs of Montana,
California and Colorado
are not the same as being there
All the senses overwhelmed with the environment
My traveling shoes have been packed into storage
The memoirs keep getting out
that is all I have left now
Memoirs