Monday, July 6, 2015

Happy Valley


   Once upon a time there was a place called Happy Valley 
Where earthlings dwelled in cozy clay domes.
Where the sun gave them light and the hilltop well gave them water.
Their fruit grew on trees and their chickens roamed free.
They tended roots in the soil and mugs in the kiln.
They were adventurers of the acres, discoverers of 
ancient empty highways and hollowed buildings, now relics.
At night they burned fires and danced in the flicker and the shadows 
of the cave that was once a secret wine cellar.
They only took from the earth what they could return 
and in return the earth set them free.
And they were free.


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All photos by: Carey Q. Haider, www.careyquintonhaider.com
Models: Magali Brecke and Coco Barrett-Tormey
Location: Happy Valley, California, at the home of Magali Brecke in the Santa Cruz mountains
Poem by: Lia Araujo