The Weatherford Hotel

Smoking Sher Bidis
in front of brick made Charley`s.
The red wine glasses clink
and loved ones clatter.

Went next door, business booms.
Looking through the round clear glass -
the mug of Ed Abbey,
the monkeywrencher.

That Cowboy hat; ah, el sol nuestro estrella.
That white beard, elfish grin, I tell you,
I still saw the white light in his eagle eyes.

- Flagstaff, 1996