Saturday, September 29, 2018
Coming Into Roswell Again
Friday, September 28, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 303
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 296
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 296
No one wants
what everyone has.
Emptiness holds
only itself.
Cattle eat
the short grass.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
THE LAST DAY
The last day
of summer
turns to
autumn, sky
so blue you
have to
believe.
I wouldn't
tell you
something
that's not
true, trust me.
Today, I'm
astonished
I can even
speak
your language.
Highway 70, Crossing Eagle Creek
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Crossing Eagle Creek
The devil takes
what the devil
wants. Behind us
we leave shadow
in the mountains.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 268
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 268
Raven
throws himself off the mountain.
Down is his way out.
Monday, September 24, 2018
AUTUMN RAIN
The rain doesn't
understand
anything --
not vapor,
not liquid,
not solid.
Not rivers
which make lakes
and oceans,
not the lakes
and oceans.
The rain doesn't
understand
this melancholy
afternoon,
this old, grey
poet lost
in memory.
Doesn't
understand
what love is,
and death.
Highway 70, Mile Marker 251
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 251
White horse
against
a red shed --
how much
depends
on this?
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 247
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 247
Trees in these
mountains. Accept
the conditions.
Take your chances.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 245
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 245
“We are a proud people,”
say the Mescalero
in these proud mountains.
Friday, September 21, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 242
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 242
What tires me?
The work
of ravens.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 240
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 240
Dead leaf
a monarch
butterfly
against
the guardrail.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 236
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 236
The snow-capped peak
playing hide and seek,
one game, another.
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 236
The snow-capped peak
playing hide and seek,
one game, another.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Highway 70, Mile Marker 230
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Mile Marker 230
The weight
of the day
in these
mountains,
the light
shows us
nothing.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Highway 70/54, Mile Marker 72
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70/54, Mile Marker 72
The white
sands, the
mountain,
this land,
it won't
let go.
Thursday, September 13, 2018
White Sands National Monument
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
White Sands National Monument
Sand like salt, like soap,
like a dish of sugar.
Of all your wonders,
Lord, this is the whitest.
What bears your
brightness walketh here.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Highway 70, Alamogordo
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 70, Alamogordo
You don't tell
the mountain's story.
The mountain tells it.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Highway 82, Runaway Truck Ramp
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Runaway Truck Ramp
Here where
rock falls
off the
mountain,
I hold
all of
my breath
I can.
Monday, September 10, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 28
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 28
The difference.
The sameness.
The mountains.
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 28
The difference.
The sameness.
The mountains.
Sunday, September 09, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 38
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 38
What you carry
will push you
off the mountain.
Saturday, September 08, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 34
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 34
Big Man on Campus.
The mountain pushes back.
Friday, September 07, 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.
What do they have
which eludes us?
Thursday, September 06, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 45
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 45
Shadows of
shadow on
snow in these
mountains.
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 48
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 48
Yes, Lord,
I say yes
in the high
thinness
of your
mountains.
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 55
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 55
Silence says
what silence is.
The empty creek
says it too.
Monday, September 03, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 57
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 57
All around these
mountains, mountains.
Sunday, September 02, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 71
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 71
The land is breaking.
To touch the sky.
O, cactus!
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Highway 82, Mile Marker 95
from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016
Highway 82, Mile Marker 95
Walk this
short grass.
Be lost
forever,
poet.
