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Rocky Flatirons

Five Colorado slabs

Five Nature fingers

(next to the Devil’s Thumb)

Five Green Mountain rock faces

Five signatures of the Eastern Slope

Five NCAR climate dials

Five homely tonsure names

A quintuple overhang

cretaceously

in dry cold and heat

the continental signatures

of earth time

Foothills Boulder beneath

Highway 36 and Broadway

Hop, Skip and Jump bus

Old Main campus

to Pearl Street Mall

Sand Creek-slaughtered Niwot

to Rocky Flats atoms

Chautauqua talk-park

to Arapahoe footprint road

IBM and Left Hand

to Doonesbury trekker-biker-skier-joggers

Buddhist Naropans full of creative degrees

to Coach McCartney Promise Keepers

Republic of Boulder alternative medicine

to ex-brothel Boulderado Hotel

A million’s million years geology

to the Daily Camera

Skyline and Baseline

to Boulder Creek

All the one scale

of measurement

All the one Flatirons

iambic pentameter