The 1A
i.
Cutting the skin of the mountain,
a spill granite and fallen trees -
October poplar.
They're not called aspen, they're poplar.
This is how you want them;
all geography defined by grassland.
There's no denying it.
There's no denial.
ii.
Closed in on all sides by Rocky Mountains,
variations of panic; and peaks claw at horizon.
It's sundown.
You don't have what you want.
No periphery of light.
And the road goes.
And the road goes.