DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Kyrgyzstani Desert

DAILY PHOTO: Red Rock Arroyo in Kyrgyzstan

Taken in Fairy Tale (Skazka) Canyon in the Summer of 2019

POEM: Fairy Tale Canyon

Down in the Fairy Tale Canyon
hides a dragonesque companion.

Its spine plates jut from rusty sands
in this ill-known Silk Route badlands.

If you see the ground start to move
you’d better have a countermove.

DAILY PHOTO: Spine in the Sand

Taken in July of 2019 at Fairy Tale Canyon on the south shore of Issyk-kul.

DAILY PHOTO: Horses in the Canyon

Taken in July of 2019 at Fairy Tale Canyon