Hobble Creek Review
| Sara Tracey |
We Call Them Mountains
Bisbee, Arizona, July 2007
We ask for names of things,
piñon, yucca, mescal, ocotillo,
the four dogs who howl at night,
Marita in the kitchen, the lizard
who waits until I'm just-this-close
before he disappears, yes, in a blink.
This valley, this thunderhead,
this sun, so much closer than our own.
We ask for ages, a man's
hands the only sign of his years,
this boulder: earthquake of 1880.
These bones, these stone points,
10,000 years forgotten.
Our own names, nothing.
The place we come from, nowhere.
Each time I search for a horizon,
I fade back, and back, and back.
My history so simple in the changing
light of these mountains.
Bisbee, Arizona, July 2007
We ask for names of things,
piñon, yucca, mescal, ocotillo,
the four dogs who howl at night,
Marita in the kitchen, the lizard
who waits until I'm just-this-close
before he disappears, yes, in a blink.
This valley, this thunderhead,
this sun, so much closer than our own.
We ask for ages, a man's
hands the only sign of his years,
this boulder: earthquake of 1880.
These bones, these stone points,
10,000 years forgotten.
Our own names, nothing.
The place we come from, nowhere.
Each time I search for a horizon,
I fade back, and back, and back.
My history so simple in the changing
light of these mountains.
Sara Tracy is a recent graduate of the NEOMFA program in creative writing.
She is a member of the adjunct writing faculty at The University of Akron and
she is also associate editor of Barn Owl Review. Sara's work has recently
appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, FRiGG, and Wicked Alice. This is
Sara's second appearance in HCR.
She is a member of the adjunct writing faculty at The University of Akron and
she is also associate editor of Barn Owl Review. Sara's work has recently
appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, FRiGG, and Wicked Alice. This is
Sara's second appearance in HCR.
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