"...And on the pedestal these words appear:

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eroded buttes burn in the barren backcountry of Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation just before sunset. June 2019.