The path
Below towers of rock
Leaves cypress trees
Up through boulder field
Tight in places
Contour
Tapering ledges
And wide platforms
All steep-sided
Exposed
The wind
Marinada
Salty
And the tang of plump seaweed
Lingers
In dry mountain air
Far from the coast
Cools
The rock face
Yellow – pink – orange – and grey
A place of doubled erosion
With rounded pebbles
Fallen
In other times
Passed
