PETROGLYPHS AT PAROWAN GAP
All things crisscross before they disappear into a silence
throbbing between jutted rocks. A trucker drives on a road
perpendicular to the wind gap, visible for a moment, then gone.
A Pontiac guns from the closest town, swerves toward me, honks,
and the men spin away, laugh at my startled jump—I give them the finger.
We break the reverie summoned from eons of layers that streak rock
masked with graffiti. Names trespass a map carved five centuries ago in
sandstone:
notches, ladders, a sun-circle of concentric rings that gives passage to the next
traveler.
If we live in dreams, our eyes opening and closing to vistas we create
unless we step into someone else’s meditation, then which ancient one
dreamt this intersection of lines—the distant trucker, the men, and myself,
who wander past a length of road into spirals so carefully engraved?
Our crossing notches a groove in my palm—a new map I now see in my hands.
Danielle Beazer Dubrasky directs the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values and is an associate professor of creative writing at Southern Utah University. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Chiron Review, South Dakota Review, Ninth Letter, Main Street Rag, Pilgrimage, saltfront, Sugar House Review, Cave Wall, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Under a Warm Green Linden, and Terrain.org. Her chapbook, Ruin and Light, won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition. Her poems were also published in a limited-edition art book Invisible Shores by Red Butte Press of the University of Utah. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and twice for Best New Poets. And she is a three-time winner of the Utah Original Writing Competition for poetry. Danielle is also the director of the Eco-poetry and the Essay Conference at Southern Utah University. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah and an MA in English/Creative Writing from Stanford University.
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