
Chama River,
flat as a lake,
opens up the bottom.
Green triangles of land,
on the right and left,
frame the water.
Flesh orange cliffs,
rivers of sand,
flow to the right.
Dense junipers,
deep borders,
focus attention.
A little sky, clouds
play at
opening up the top.
Nothing
more important
than anything else.
—
Jane Shoenfeld is a painter and poet. She lived in NYC from 1963 to 1987. In ’87, she moved to NM. Her paintings are the cover art for several recent poetry journals and she has written poetry for many years.