Turquoise River

Turquoise river roaring

through rock

 so easily eroded

         by water and

   sunlight

Illuminating liquid like gold

  and

     cavernous holes

embedded in soft rock

where a waterfall

        plunges into a deep pool

              of blue that forces

          the sandstone 

                to melt as if running 

                                       red hot

                         and carving its path

                      through this desert landscape

                       this Colorado, the colour of the desert.

            

 This dry and desolate land

          Where cacti thrive and carcasses lie.

This

     strange

             place

that exists

           in the centre of an exotic

abyss.