First Couple Vacation

by Cheryl Merrick
Apprehensive about leaving
the security of home,
but eager for new sights,
we begin down the road.

Enjoying quiet talks as we ramble
through cactus filled desert, 
we spend five days together,
but never one moment alone.

With our trailer growing ever smaller,
we share adventures,
till finally,
we are home safe again. 

Trip Ambiance

by Cheryl Merrick

Desert stretching to the horizon
Metro areas engulfing the land

Helpful, good people guiding us
Hardened, hopeless workers surviving

Elegant mountainside mansions
Rundown inner city houses

The quiet stillness of the saguaro desert
The frantic rushing of Phoenix, and Tucson