Rain passing over us in a heavy cistern
Cardinal direction eastern
Yellow is the color of the young
Agoseris. Lomatium.
Digging them up like a Piaute or a Wasco
Roots clenched. Basalt flow.
Before I know it you’ll become crinkled ribbons
A brown remembrance given
And sent away into a manila envelope
Epithets. Scientific trope.
A memory
A reverberated chord of Big Sky Bend.