Elephant Butte

~ The water runs deep dark and steep just a few feet from the lake shore   and all eyes will sweep the largeness she keeps – she’s a butte of a lake, and much more.   The boys of their teens are barely just weaned from the babies they were just before,   then […] Continue reading

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forever at home

project to project a workday is run   lunchtime     breaktime breakfast      a repast at home   round the round cycle ’til the clock says it’s done   project by project one done    by one   day labor    working ’til all of it’s    gone   nonsense in shirking not […] Continue reading

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Déjà Vu

we’ve see this before     somewhere out there   over a rainbow     but not New Mexico   where there,      they’re much    too much rare   and each gets a vote    where each one could win,   but that too’s remote   you don’t have to stand outside in […] Continue reading

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The Chargé de Camp

  Time’s running out. At a point, you can tell. But you don’t.    You won’t notice,     you ignore it.   And that point begins when close family and friends up ends    and begins    to diminish.   ‘Diminishing Returns,’     the fancier term, I’ll just cut to the chase and […] Continue reading

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Metaphor Making

meta phorically  – such a hard word – thinking can be tricky business. That glorious sun!    erstwhile it runs would not be the same    without Texas.   Were this not so    how would we know insane    is the metaphor breaking. The state right next door    makes Cajun decor a stage      a mode      a being.   […] Continue reading

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