Following fifty tons
through light showers
across Nevada,
big alfalfa bales
towards our dry
California home,
we focus on raindrops
streaking reality
after a week of poetry
and song, to feel
our poor possibilities
grow by the truckload—
heavy with an endless
emptiness in our bellies
beneath the straps
of seat belts
before another wreck.
We hang on.
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Tagged alfalfa hay, Drought, National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Nevada, photographs, poetry, rain, weather
With a leisurely, late start from Elko, we encountered a few midday showers Monday, crossing Nevada’s Great Basin between Carlin and Tonopah, making for some interesting high-speed photos with the point and shoot.
Under a dark cloud outside Eureka, a blurry foreground beneath a crisp Lone Mountain on the ‘Lonliest Road in America’ (US 50).
Hay headed to dry California.
We stopped for a bowl of soup at the refurbished and reopened Mizpah in Tonopah,
then headed into to the sunset towards Bishop.
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Tagged Drought, Great Basin, National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Nevada, photographs, rain, Tonopah, weather
Purple Penstemon – May 5, 2011
After a week of celebrating,
song and poetry
sound the same.
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Tagged Greasy Creek, haiku, photographs, poetry, Purple Penstemon, wildflowers
Bird’s Eye Gilla – April 11, 2011
Sometimes mindless creatures
of habit in bloom,
never sure who’s got whom.
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Tagged Bird's Eye Gilla, haiku, photographs, poetry, wildflowers
Blow Wives – April 6, 2013
Spreading seed on wider wings,
Dandelion
by any other name.
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Tagged Blow Wives, Dry Creek, haiku, photographs, poetry, wildflowers
Johnny Tuck – March 31, 2013
I can show up anywhere
yet never certain who
I want to be.
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Tagged Dry Creek, haiku, Johnny Tuck, photographs, poetry, wildflowers
Not wind through willow limbs that sing of rooted past,
but our first tunes, drummed upon catgut strings, cast
beyond early stirrings searching words to fit a melody
of earthly work, we find a moment’s worth of immortality.
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Tagged Cowboy Celtic, Cowboy Poetry, National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, photographs, poetry
Purple Milkweed – May 2, 2011
Alien spaceships,
purple people eaters
or just milkweed in bloom.
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Tagged flower-friday, Greasy Creek, haiku, photographs, poetry, Purple Milkweed, wildflowers
Fiddleneck – April 5, 2011
I’d make music
if I could only trumpet
from my fiddle neck.
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Tagged Dry Creek, Fiddleneck, haiku, photographs, poetry, wildflowers
Phacelia (Scorpionweed) and Lichen – May 15, 2011
Competing everywhere you look
grace and color
growing together.
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Tagged Greasy Creek, haiku, Lichen, Phacelia, photographs, poetry, Scorpionweed, wildflowers
