At the far clump
of city desert
one shoot up
for the child
who stopped,
stooped,
knelt,
kissed it.

Gordon’s DREAM WIND was published 2020 (Spirit-of-the-Ram), GROUND OF THIS BLUE EARTH (Mellen), while EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received RIVERSTONE P Poetry Prize (AZ). Work appears in AGNI, American Literary R, Cincinnati PR, Mississippi R, New York Q, Phoebe, RHINO, Sonora R, Texas Observer, several nominated for Pushcarts. EMPTY will be published Winter 2023-04, BLUE BUSINESS, a chapbook (maybe more), is in-progress (61). He divides lives between the Chihuahuan Desert Southwest Organ Mountains and Asia.