Heritage

By Susan Dyer

Published in Utah Heritage Remembered in 1996

by the Blanding Stakes Relief Societies

for the State Centennial

Mother tramped through hot sand

in a nearly deserted land.

She climbed red rocks

without shoes or socks.

She searched for pottery and arrowheads

in unearthed Anasazi bed.

Played under the blazing sun,

says she's never had such fun.

When hot, she swam in a deep pool

to keep herself fresh and cool.

Mother had a young and free spirit

I hope to inherit.