What’s the punishment for being “wrong”? In my upbringing, that would be that no one loves you. No matter how enlightened or advanced one grows, this still requires constant dismantling, as the scattered bones come back together every night. Imagine, too, a world where creativity outside of math or engineering is despised, where taking risks [...]
Garden of Eden
Rain moving right to left over Taos Pueblo lands
We can have giant storms you see from over ninety miles away. They take years to get here, but when they do they’re as big as Oklahoma and make all kinds of scary noises. There’s always a big wind from the rapid evaporative cooling that takes place overhead in ten percent humidity, and that whips [...]
It’s all here
You can do a lot of damage with an outfit like that. Just look at the fuzzy little bastard. It’s all a ruse, too. This thing is like Godzilla. You just think I take his picture because because he’s gorgeous. If you look at this picture long enough, unexpected things will happen in your body. [...]
Transformation
This is “down by the acequia.” Water is running high in the ditch just beyond my feet here where you can’t see. The reddish shoots are willows that the ditch cleaning crews usually cut down, but this year I haven’t seen them yet. I don’t know what the blooming tree is. The dark one in [...]
Time for dancing naked in the fields
What’s left of the Japanese plum tree outside the dead landlord’s apartment blooms one more time. Its roots reach deep into the sewer line, so it will follow “Uncle Dale” except by chain saw, not by smoking and living over the septic tank. A battered lilac must go with it. The man’s been dead eight [...]
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