The Macabre Poems [Part Six: Poems: 111 to 126/the last part]

111) Droughts along the Mesa [Mesa Verde: 1200-1300 AD]

Written after visiting Mesa Verde [8/04], and walking among its renowned cliff dwellings in its 53,000-achers National Park; the author was captivated by its legacy. The cliff dwellings were only occupied for some 75-years before the inhabitants moved south due to the 24-years of droughts they had to endure.

And God called the dry land earth.