YUKON NEWS COLUMN  — CARLSBAD
The life of desire is the only life we live.
The deepening blue of the New Mexico dusk enveloped the desert’s rolling hills and arroyos with their prickly pears and honey mesquite. The evening star glimmered just above the horizon.
The cavern opened below us like the maw of a huge fish — black and very big.
At first there was only a flicker, a “did-you-see-it” moment. Then there was another. They came floating upwards like brown leaves, before …