Baja Outpost

Baja Outpost

A single bulb lit the entry way.

The darkness moved slowly out to meet us.

The innkeeper stepped forward with a smile.

Welcome friends to Baja Outpost.

The flight of the journey

provided an evening inspiration.

Too tired to wander about,

I crawled into our bed to sleep the day awake.

As I arose in the early morning,

a window flap was already lifted.

Suddenly, I saw the sea of Cortez—

under a very very blue sky.

Each day on my stay in Mexico,

I woke on a concrete floor…

the place where I would sleep

became a resort within a resort.

Each day, a new conquest awaited.

I became a prancing tourist—

unable to capture the gold in the sky

or steal the blue from the water.

Jack Hansen is a retired Headmaster, Elementary Principal, Special Ed Teacher and Librarian, and Viet Nam vet who moved from Maine to Seattle in 1995. His works have appeared several times previously in Northwest Prime Time.

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