los elefantes

Patio behind Hotel Casa de Campo
Santa Cruz, Colchagua Valley, Chile
February 23, 2010

Half moon, media luna, over hills that look like several elephants who've eaten a boa constrictor; Peter's hiking boot props open back door to our room, large pots scattered on lawn around two-wheel-buggy meant for horse power; sun gone down, los Andes invisible, elephant hills still showing trees, valleys, soon to be sihouettes; air cools, earth smell, family lighting bbq, half moon bright, high high high at 8:30 p.m., one star above closest elephant, another below moon; murmers of bbq-ers, birds caw from dark fields between rows of recently planted vines, Carmenere or Malbec, Peter thinks; music from distant farm, no, from bbq-ers, sound travels strangely, plays tricks (bounces off elephants?).