Kurtastrophe

In the canyon lands, the sienna tinged sandstone absorbs summer's heat during the day, and releases it after the sunset, when the desert resurrection begins. Snakes crawl out from dark crevices, where they have spent the hottest time, stretching full length for a moment on slick rock before moving onward. Bats overhead, which live in fissure caves high on the cliffs, weave soaring, silent, dark lines against the moon. The landscape, which was the color of a Hopi woman's inner thighs during the day, is now silver-gray and green in the moonlight, the source of which appears to rest on a nearby cliff top.