I wind the crown beneath the creosote
Larrea tridentata drinks the note
Gold case warms inside my dirty palm
Roots drink the hours like desert balm
Hands move slow like agave bloom at night
Seconds bloom in pale and patient light
Gears turn quiet as a taproot grows
Where the Colorado River flows
Seconds like seeds in the mesa dust
Time takes root in iron and rust
Tick by tick the shadows stretch and yawn
Night blooms soft before the dawn
Yucca brevifolia lifts its arms
Sheltering the watch from solar harms
Tick echoes deep in sandstone veins
Memory flows where the aquifer rains
Seconds like seeds in the mesa dust
Time takes root in iron and rust
Tick by tick the shadows stretch and yawn
Night blooms soft before the dawn
No calendar marks the strata here
Just erosion's patient frontier
The watch finds north by root and stone
This ancient time is not my own
Opuntia pads hold dew like glass
Reflecting hours as they slowly pass
I read the dial like a soil ph test
Finding peace inside this geologic rest
Horizon bleeds into the violet gray
The watch stops ticking lets the night hold sway
I bury deep the gold beneath the sand
Time grows wild across the native land
Seconds like seeds in the mesa dust
Time takes root in iron and rust
Tick by tick the shadows stretch and yawn
Night blooms soft before the dawn
Seconds like seeds in the mesa dust
Time takes root in iron and rust
Gold hands turning in the dark loam
Seconds like seeds coming home
