To Walt and Miriam,
camped three days in a draw
on Tonto Platform --
her, unconscious from a fall;
when the flash flood came
and knocked them clear
out from the wall so that they flew,
framed by red sand, stinging water,
every piece of gear they owned,
surfing helplessly down
the inner gorge. The only eye
to see the flood was awestruck
Walt's, before it filled with stones.