Reg Saner's "first Coloradans" are a lot like us.
Vintage Colorado Poetry
Poem of the Week
August 30, 2004
Anasazi, the First Coloradans

They knew next to nothing about the sky
while counting on it for everything.

What a wonderful time that must've been---
to see the sun down, not a twilight clue
where it goes as it vanishes
or why.

And then they cleared out,
leaving behind lots of strange names
and all this furniture.

                         --Reg Saner
Reprinted from Essay on Air.  Athens, Ohio.  An Ohio Review Book, 1984.  Copyright (c) 1984 by Reg Saner.  Used with the author's permission.
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