Ken and Ruth
A remarkable team,
you’ve embraced Colorado
thoroughly enough
to gauge its most basic
dimensions, its mountains,
mesas, canyons, plains;
that we the creatures of this
great land in trapezoidal fashion
depend upon our abilities
to abide with each other;
in this, you teach that every
potential answer requires
re-phrasing the question
based on experience gained
in following the evidence to
its next incremental intuition;
your chosen professions,
engineering and the law
you use as problem-solving
parabolas arching over
canyon rims to ribbons
of streams, diminishing or
roaring through public discourse;
clean and healthy enough
to cultivate a whole new
generation of eager and true
Ruth and Kens!
Greg and Bobbie Hobbs
6/7/2018