Grand Canyon – POETRY and PLACES

Hozho by Robert Coats

Hozho by Robert Coats “The Navaho word hozho, translated into English as ‘beauty,’ also means harmony, wholeness, goodness.” —J. Ruth Gendler Notes on the Need for Beauty Hiking in the Grand Canyon down Permian dunes of the Coconino Sandstone, red rubble of the Supai Group. It’s a good place for restoring one to hozho, andContinue reading “Hozho by Robert Coats”

Sunrise, Grand Canyon by John Barton (Arizona)

Sunrise, Grand Canyonby John Barton We stand on the edge, the fallinto depth, the ascent of light revelatory, the canyon walls movingup out of shadow, litcolours of the layers cutting down through darkness, sunrise as itpasses a precipitate of the river, its burnt tangerineflare brief, jagged bleeding above the far rim for a splitsecond IContinue reading “Sunrise, Grand Canyon by John Barton (Arizona)”