Rock Canyon, 1989

Rock Canyon, 1989

                   

Thou hast put gladness in my heart.

                                            —Psalms  4:7

When I tried to speak, I sang.

When I started to sing, wind

was my friend.  My song reached

the walls of Rock Canyon

and came back, an echo

of gladness in my heart.

The sky opened—no clouds,

no rain, no end in sight.

Twenty years have passed.

I haven’t gone back to Rock Canyon,

but the echo, however faint,

and the gladness still remain.

                              —Donnell Hunter

                                        5 March 2012