wrecking new mexico
near santa fe along the new mexico two-lane my stomach threw itself apart in five pieces: 1: nostalgic monster 2: murder evaluation 3: hippie drunk 4: naive lunatic 5: generic whore just then i saw the late, late hour and panicked the evening stars fell ...
A Truck: gassing up hard.
The wind grabbed the skirt and shirt-tails of the silk desert silt hovering over the furnace.  Is this how poems begin? Blacktop shimmer.  From movies. The wheels, wailing,  shed hunks of dry fire.  Something liquid that the sun weeps, the daylight ...
On The Road: Las Vegas, Pietown & Arizona
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The Desert Eventually Ends
The Desert Eventually Ends I’ve heard people say “Nothing lasts forever, ” which isn’t true, by the way. Lots of things last forever although I can’t remember exactly what I’m talking about. I might mean love or the singularity or ...
New Mexico 03 – New Functions For Clones
He never called them his flock because they were neither birds nor sheep. Some of them no doubt had bird or sheep DNA spliced into their blood. But this didn’t seem to make them prone to flocking behavior.  It did ...
The King’s Rest 03
He took two suns from the door, high over the white desert and thanked God. Nearby, a highway would sometimes buzz and thrum but he did not know what the sound meant and to his new ears, he thought it ...