L'aura del Campo

White puffs above Parral [172]

White puffs above Parral

Dryscape of braided river beds
patches of irrigated green,
spotted cloud shade
moving over scattered villages...
Even 6 miles above Mexico
one wonders about the heat.
Baked earth describes
these thousand shades of tan
as turbulence shakes to grab
our ugly bags of mostly water.
It lets us go with a moan
as white puffs lie about rain.
Delta flight thirteen-ninety-six carries on.
And sixty years after watching
my father fly, I fly too. In life,
we each have our own destination.

© Kåre Enga [174.172] (10.julio.2017) Delta flight 1396 over Mexico.