The Anasazi
Gone long before Europeans walked in the Americas Pueblo
I climbed up onto the Anasazi plain through a small gulley coming out ofGreen river creating an oxbow in the river. It's tipped by a butte known as Turks Head. Sunk into the small cliffs of this long oxbow are a few ruins of tiny little rock huts of the Pueblo I People.
Pursued by a noisy Raven early in the morning I circled the ancient butte the Anasazi must have used for a redoubt. The view was tremendous, looking into a labyrinth of canyons and other distant buttes. The presence of the ancient race was strong. This was a perfect place to be an early American. Predators couldn't sneak up on you here. Game could be spotted from miles away. Enemies could be easily fought off or avoided.
The day before, paddling canoes along the ancient channel of theGreen River , we were discussing waste, planetary responsibility, global warming and the demise of our "civilization." Here on this strange quiet plain, a raven came to be my guide and warn me that this has already happened before. In geologic time we won't be here but a few moments. Just as the Anasazi.
Will some future adventurer climb upon our ruins on a cool morning in May and wonder? I hope the raven is not as critical of his presence as he was mine.
I climbed up onto the Anasazi plain through a small gulley coming out of
Pursued by a noisy Raven early in the morning I circled the ancient butte the Anasazi must have used for a redoubt. The view was tremendous, looking into a labyrinth of canyons and other distant buttes. The presence of the ancient race was strong. This was a perfect place to be an early American. Predators couldn't sneak up on you here. Game could be spotted from miles away. Enemies could be easily fought off or avoided.
The day before, paddling canoes along the ancient channel of the
Will some future adventurer climb upon our ruins on a cool morning in May and wonder? I hope the raven is not as critical of his presence as he was mine.
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