6 weeks in south Texas, Spring 2012

6 weeks in south Texas, Spring 2012

Day 33

I now measure time

In daily toothpaste usage

my teeth are quite clean

Day 34

My tongue in your cheek

Irony is all I feel

for Mesquite blossoms

Day 35

X-Mas eve ‘02

Ziggy Stardust playing loud

John was still alive

Day 37

Cancer is pretty

Iridescent death glimmers

My pockets are lined

 Home

I chased the sunset

West. Plain to valley to peaks.

Possibilities.  

Land of Many Lands

A land of diesel fumes and gas flares
Cactus and longhorns
Beauty as unexpected as the occasional liberal
Live Oaks in the east 
Limestone mesas to the west
Big guns and bigger egos encompassing vast stretches of mesquite
Droughts so consuming they leave cactus gasping for water,
until they drown in the next monsoon
Wildflowers blooming under border patrol trucks
Derricks rise and fall beside vast roadways nearing extinction
Swim through humidity
Gasp in heat

    Texas 2012