The Missing Link

by Katie Lee

From Hidden Passage, the Journal of Glen Canyon Institute
Volume V

           My father Sky
my mother Earth
                    my brothers and sisters
               (those playful tributary siblings)
Likewise
               my wives
                    my mistresses
          (those many thousand streams and canyons)
        And the children of my old age
            (the canyon's offsprings)
        All… have given me great strength.

        The blood of their veins
            builds a new age
               a new continent
        upon the sea floor.
Entrada…
     Carmel…
          Navajo…
               Kayenta…
                    Wingate…
                         Chinle…
                              Shinarump…
                                   Moenkopi…
                                        Organ Rock…

What form of life in future eons
     will note
          the Glen Canyon Series
     was pinched out and disappeared
From the strata
     when the sea bed rises
          one more time
     to form a new land mass
And ask the question. Why?

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