Suargho cactus on
Palos Verdes Campus
Arizona State University,
at Tempe
summer session
and a necessary siesta
every day between
two and six
while the Sonoran sun
blazed
inside I hid
and sipped
giant cold drinks of lemonade
with shaved ice
that saved my afternoons
then as the day wore on
drinking green bottles
of Boone's Farm Apple Wine
the price was right
and the buzz was slight
listening, swaying
to Santana's tunes
in a trance
falling for their
exotic romance
until the evening brought
on shots of Tequila with
salt and lemon wedges
then out to the desert
with Roxanne to
watch the show
in the heavens...
both
breathtaking

the apache kid