You cradle wood of spruce and maple
Fingers trace the scroll's dark chapel
Quercus alba varnish gleams
Dusty canyon feeds your dreams
Roots drink deep from hidden aquifer
Bow sings sweet like desert juniper
Mesa violin sings loud and clear
Notes float out on warming air
Cactus spines catch harmonic gold
Stories ancient newly told
You tune the G to Opuntia bloom
E-string rings through Yucca gloom
F-holes drink the ultraviolet light
Purfling glows in fading night
Roots drink deep from hidden aquifer
Bow sings sweet like desert juniper
Mesa violin sings loud and clear
Notes float out on warming air
Cactus spines catch harmonic gold
Stories ancient newly told
Arid wind bows Agave leaves
Vibrato rides on thermal eves
Luthier's ghost in grain remains
Pinon smoke and sunlit stains
No concert hall no velvet seat
Just sandstone bench and retreat
Gravity pulls each phrase to ground
Silence shaped by perfect sound
Mesa violin sings loud and clear
Notes float out on warming air
Cactus spines catch harmonic gold
Stories ancient newly told
Final movement lifts to sky
Hawks circle where the harmonics fly
Wood remembers every hand
Songs grow wild in desert sand
Mesa violin sings loud and clear
Notes float out on warming air
Cactus spines catch harmonic gold
Stories ancient newly told
Last note hangs on thermals high
Violin rests 'neath open sky