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!


# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:55 AM

Monday, July 30, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (47) 


 More roll than rock,
these Missouri hills.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:04 AM

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Leaving Cloudcroft 


 from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

 Leaving Cloudcroft

 Yes,
the world.

 Below us.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:08 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:06 PM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 2:23 PM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:33 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:14 AM

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (40) 


 Ah, black dirt
in hot wind.

 Farmer's breath.


# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:26 AM

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.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:24 AM

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.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:28 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:43 AM

Friday, July 20, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (37) 


 Out beyond the edge
of everything, where

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



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:29 AM

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 57 


 from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

 Highway 82, Mile Marker 57

 Around
these

 mountains,
mountains.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:12 AM

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (34) 


 Afternoon.
Now the heat,

 wings on fire.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:37 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:42 AM

Monday, July 16, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (32) 



Silence is
a
music too.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:49 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:34 AM

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (29) 


 Not one crow
but all of them,

 dark companions.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:23 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:27 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:39 AM

Sunday, July 08, 2018

Hope, New Mexico 

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

 Hope, New Mexico

 Hope
holds

 on.

 It has

 to.


# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:11 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:27 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:39 AM

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.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:40 AM

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?



# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:21 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 10:32 AM

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.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:33 AM

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