High Desert Travels Poem by Bill Galvin

High Desert Travels
Without you by my side
Southwest colors less spectacular
Panoramas more confined
Landscapes less breathtaking
Destinations less defined
Favorite places less meaningful
New explorations disinclined
Mountains less majestic
Plans left half designed
River flows more melancholy
Priorities all realigned
Blue skies less welcome
A future still unconsigned
Rooms and meals more lonesome
My wanderings unrefined
Carried only by great memory
Of our life-print left behind.

3-29-2015