Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Highway 82, The Tunnel 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, The Tunnel

Yes, fer
Chrissakes,

rock!

Lord God
Almighty!


Monday, July 30, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (47) 


More roll than rock,
these Missouri hills.



Sunday, July 29, 2018

Leaving Cloudcroft 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Leaving Cloudcroft

Yes,
the world.

Below us.



Saturday, July 28, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 38 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 38

What you cling to
is what will push you

off the mountain.



Friday, July 27, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 40 

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 40

Three ravens
in formation

all the way
up the valley.

This is the way
the world ends.



Thursday, July 26, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (42) 


Wind sings
in the telephone wires.

The news is
always bad.

Again you say,
Do not give up.



Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 41 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 41

What do we want
which eludes us?

And why do we
keep pursuing?

Would that distance
bless us again.



Tuesday, July 24, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (40) 


Ah, black dirt
in hot wind.

Farmer's breath.


Monday, July 23, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 45 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 45

Shadow of
shadows in

snow on
the mountains.



Sunday, July 22, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 48 

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 48

Yes, Lord,
I say

Yes
to this

thinness
in your

mountains.



Saturday, July 21, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 55 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 55

Silence says
what silence is.

Empty creek bed
says it too.



Friday, July 20, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (37) 


Out beyond the edge
of everything, where

stars fly away, there's
nothing more for us.



Thursday, July 19, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 57 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 57

Around
these

mountains,
mountains.



Wednesday, July 18, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (34) 


Afternoon.
Now the heat,

wings on fire.



Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Highway 2, Mile Marker 2 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 2, Mile Marker 2

Where the
shadow

flies, I
fly. We

fly here.



Monday, July 16, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (32) 



Silence is
a
music too.



Sunday, July 15, 2018

Highway 2, Mile Marker 8 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 2, Mile Marker 8

Another
red hawk
in sun

above this
hard land.



Wednesday, July 11, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (29) 


Not one crow
but all of them,

dark companions.



Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 85 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 85

These guys
like to DRIVE

big pick-ups.
Like to drive

BIG pick-ups.
Like to drive

big PICK-UPS.



Monday, July 09, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (25) 


A line of trees,
edge-markers, a

wind break, sign of
hope where the green

whispers gather.



Sunday, July 08, 2018

Hope, New Mexico 

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Hope, New Mexico

Hope
holds

on.

It has

to.


Friday, July 06, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 80 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 80

The ground
the sky

the ground
the mountain

sun.



Thursday, July 05, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (20) 


A fellow tells me
a sad story
I don't want to hear:

seven teenagers killed
when their van rolled here.

"It was so bad,
some of them were
unrecognizable."

Now I'm telling you.



Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 89 


from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 89

From all directions
everyone

knows that mountain.



Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Highway 82, Eagle Draw 

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Eagle Draw

So much silence.
How will I ever

speak again?



Monday, July 02, 2018

Highway 2, Mile Marker 11 



from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 2, Mile Marker 11

The rough road
tells its truth,

what matters
in the moment.



Sunday, July 01, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (15) 



Sometimes these
are nothing

and sometimes
they are

something and
always

they are
all I've got.



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