Sonoran wet spring
brittle brush yellow bloom
Harquahala (running water high up) morning shadow
Granite Wash Mountains short to the west
rested in the Maria belt
thrust and fold
coarse debris
Quaternary downcut, shallow
Late Cretaceous Plutonic
dioritic border phase
alaskite, pegmatite
gypsum, gold, silver
alluvial material
turned to grussy sand
pottery shards and mule deer
bighorn sheep at sunset watering hole
spanning a thousand years