My reluctant parting from Durango grows faintly white

My Journey through Colorado with the poetry of Basho in Basho’s Journey by David Landis Barnhill reading umi kurete kamo no koe honoka ni shiroshi while not dead yet shininmo senu tabine no hate yo aki no kure Japanese Haiku hototogisu I hiked alone at mesa verde national park Saigyo drops trickle down in the form of nectar or rasa or amrit Exodus 20 bleached bones by the roadside on my mind Rice Monkeys Durango a friend I had not seen for twenty years in Silver City New mexico inochi futatsu no naka ni ikataru sakura kana The narrow slot canyon to the deep southwest at four corners