Don't know why but just am.

Naked Before A New Beginning

The trail is steep
And the gaps can be narrow
To climb as high as one can go
Before the mountain shadow
Slides slowly in
To chill the air
Midway between the peak
And the desert plain

Dry is the ground
Where stakes are laid
And slumber is found
Wrapped on the ground
Beneath a billion
And a half shinning stars
And dreams they enter

Sand pushes out
Beneath black boots
That dig deep
Moving on
Forward with a searching song
Calling Jesus Mohammad Sitting Bull
Buddha and the Devil himself
Forward through the Christmas
Teddy Bear and Cane Cholla
As Prickly Pear needles
Scratch the blue jean
Between knees and heel
Saguaros in a row
Saguaros individual
Stand surrendered
With arms bent high

wanted to see Downtown, Tucson, because if there was a memorial for Judge Rolls, it would be downtown, where he used to hold court at the Federal Court House. When I arrived into the heart, of Tucson, I followed the directions I had with me to the Federal Courthouse Building. There were no flowers or balloons or anything to show that a memorial had been set up for him.

Sunday’s Sermon -- Grace is Righteousness, the sign read at the entrance into the parking lot of Mountain View Church of Christ in Tucson. I found a parking spot easily as a sporadic showing of vehicles left many empty spaces. The only reason for this showing was that I must be early. And I was by a half hour.

Yesterday, after thinking of peace and justice outside the church where Judge Rolls was being waked, I drove to the office of Congresswoman Gifford. Here I tied a ribbon that I pulled from a Sun Dance tree on a medicine man's land in South Dakota. On the ribbon I wrote a note to one of the dead, Gifford's aide, Gabe Zimmerman...

I traveled to the University of Arizona today to find the one that was waiting the longest to see President Obama arrive and speak tonight in Tucson. This is what I found.

Walked past them all

People in a stretched out line

In a Tucson mountain valley

Came to listen

Maybe hear some solutions

Maybe more grand illusions

Some caught my eye

Standing tall talking