Young Artist

Class of Hope

graduation tree
she chose Granny Smith Apple
sweet, sour, pie-love

javelina hike 
to a cactus-filled Thumb Butte
to start the morning

a Whiskey Row lunch
Watson Lake under blue skies
for the afternoon

my daughter’s new friends 
soon to be her new roommates:
a perfect evening

Monument Valley:
the perfect sunrise rest stop
to light our faces

snow at Grand Canyon:
surprise bucket list side trip
to catch her snowfall

all three together:
it feels like a bucket list
to let them g(r)o(w)

a new Corona 
three years after quarantine 
back to wilderness

girls’ trip for spring break 
to collect our Subaru 
and meet our sister

miracle arches 
connect the past and future 
with hope for this life

your bucket list waits
for a ‘delicate’ sunset,
a breathtaking arch

your children await
at the top of a boulder 
with the perfect view

a lifetime awaits
at the end of vacation 
yet memories last