Friday, July 08, 2005

texas


brownsville flophouse shade
dusty border town respite
reading "on the road"
(10-08)
 




came through wich'ta falls -
summer of endless prairie,
an apparition
(9-14)



summers ‘t th’water parks,
finally got th’job ‘t th’good one, ‘n he’s
moving t’new braunfels
(5-15)
monsoon water in river -
most o' year it's dry
(3-10)




ruins of tokio -
what's left of post office, shade
for mouse and hiker
(8-13)





a town they call post -
steps echo in its silence
and its august sun
(9-08)





labor day coffee
hundred-year sun finds pecos -
taste of chicory
(9-12)





across a broad lake,
six lanes west to grand prairie -
(8-12)





ten houston commute,
mosquito fries on windshield-
he never saw maine
(9-05)



landed in inchon,
survived a bitter war - but
hates texas summers
(9-05)




raised in port arthur,
held her like a tight swimsuit -
made her want to scream
(9-05)





juarez kids watch trucks
westbound out of el paso
hot sand, deep river
(8-05)






flower girl sings blues
but dusty pal is native
(7-05)




in the alamo
history peeks from behind
racks of sunglasses
(7-05)





back roads to airport -
sun, dust, west texas summer,
highway cuts through bliss
(7-08)



outskirts of dallas -
city nightlife's lure; in th' west,
autumn tornados
(8-10)
old baseball, season's ending-
nine hundredth haiku
(10-14)




all night, hunter's moon,
stiff west wind, high plains, then, at
dawn, amarillo
(11-13)





oil drilling money,
nowhere t’go –it’s halloween, ‘n’ he’s 
fly’n through sweetwater





blouse caught on barbed wire -
it's cooled off toward livable,
b't her mind's on dallas
(1-13)
let's rest, celebrate the breeze
on the guadaloupe
(2-14)





child, sad and hungry,
eyes cookies on l'redo shrine
to th'angelitos
(10-14)




a deep-fried turkey,
parking lot family dinner -
(11-13)



loop lifts at quaker,
geese call and circle their find -
unfrozen water
(1-13)




bag o' 'spresso beans -
plane circles over frigid
fields, lubbock recedes
(1-13)





cott'n in tumbleweed -
new t'plains winter, he brakes for
its rabbit-like jump
(1-13)
scrub bush his only shelter -
(1-13)






ten, ribbon wrapping
the west texas high country -
gift that needs a tree
(8-05)








 

el paso denny's -
juevos, 'n' new years' toast, to the
safe side 'v the river
(1-14) 




short cut back t’dimmitt -
wife gave birth ‘n th’panhandle storm, 
drifts, canyon t’naz’reth
(5-15)




riverwalk buskers’

blankets ‘n’ sweaters against th’night –

not really that cold
(5-15)





near amarillo 
caddy's fins praise winter sun -
old truck's engine dies
(1-07)





eight ball in the side -
abilene cowboy's warning:
stay 'way f'my val'n'tine
(2-13)




hard life ‘f drugs ‘n’ music –
rockers curse th’prickly cactus
(5-15)
its conspiracy theories
reawakening
(11-13)





huge ranch outside post
easter dinner, ‘njoying th’view,
sky turns, and it pours
(5-15) 




they’ve run out th’homeless, ‘n’ made it
a crime to feed them
(6-15)

san marcos, one stop of hike,
boston to peru
(3-10)





it's twisted, she says -
tornado hit th'n.t.s.
outside, a spring squall
(5-13)




they put texas down,
but never saw this field of
(4-10)




hard rains – west texas

wildflow’rs ‘re happy, but cotton
planters are anxious  
(5-15)





migra's got th'dogs out -
guy takes blooming cactus tour
up toward guadaloupes
(1-14)





roadside bluebonnets
open morning, austin-bound
possibilities
(9-08)





trav'lin' th'ABC,
hit lubbock this spring, had enough -
his dreams in a knot
(5-13)








town ‘f turkey tries to contain

th’panhandle’s urge t’drink
(5-15)






kerrville campfire jam -
tune and tale from each corner,
soft glow of embers
(3-10)



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roads were wet, ‘n’ she went off one –
wet wood crackles ‘n’ th’fire
(6-15)
 

wanted th’kerrville hugs

so badly that time, she came

and left th’car running
(5-15)
 





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at least when she died,

says the kerrville camper, she was
going someplace good
(6-15)



flags along quaker,

reasons they died, long lost to
corner news vendors
(5-13)





his hometown's called wink -
one june, followed sun west - 's friends
couldn't seem to leave
(5-13)


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