FRAGILE BEAUTY by Tim Riter

The fragile beauty

            of the wildflower

            in rainbow colors

                        of yellow and white and red and orange and blue

the symmetry

            of a cedar

            stretching to the sky

the majesty

            of a mountain range

            Sangre de Cristo by name

the grace

            of a running deer

            sliding through the pines

the cavernous canyon

            called the grand

This

            the world I crave