Haibun: Apache Trail

The deep crevices of the Tonto Mountains rise and fall. Sometimes the mountains fall at steep slopes and sometimes they drop like canyon walls. There really is no easy pass through them, no quick way to get through them.

Once only passed by Apaches — after Geronimo was sent to Florida as a prisoner and back — many of these same Apaches set to work on building the road through these mountains. As the engineers dynamited, the Apaches of all different tribes would haul the stone away, shovel the dirt and level the road. 

The Apache Trail goes from Mesa up to Lake Roosevelt. Lake Roosevelt is the first of three dams on the Salt River. The road they built was the pathway to build these dams that now control the river. All made possible by the Apache Trail and the warriors just trying to help their families survive the new reservation life. 

Technology will always require the complete control of the free, the savage, and the brave; otherwise, what is technology making us safe from, better from?

the rise and fall

of each inch of the Tonto

and what should be fall