Tales of the Tribe http://wp.me/p102ON-E6 Synopsis: Society creates the stories it tells itself: factual, specious, apocryphal, dishonest; by any rendition, according to Wallace Stevens, will still be a fiction. Myth wears the clothes of its culture, will always be a social fact, and those who would eschew these basic facets of humanity, will prove […] Continue reading
An abstract journey through concrete Americana with a lagniappe through the “Great Discussion.” From serious humor to light-hearted gravitas, this is a trip you need to enjoy. Poetic postcards of Americana will be provided for. Our trip commences upon your arrival at Union Station, and continues until we arrive at a Paradigm Shift – […] Continue reading
~ Pueblo por Pueblo Stacked within arms To protect you, Secreto, From dangerous harms. Some blessed by agua, Some, none at all. Pueblo poor Pueblo, Stone, in stone walls. One year, acuerdo, Another, que no. ¿Estuve que libre, En stanzas escriben, Que hace contigo Libre también, O este de no? Pueblo […] Continue reading
V. Rebellion ~ The Ninth day of August, Sixteen-Eighty, don Antonio de Otermín, governor and captain of His Majesty’s province, New Mexico Land, states he had received “Some noteworthy news of general disturbance.” The Pueblo Indians, now Christian converted, are “convoked, allied, and confederated” to revolt from this Kingdom and destroy all at hand, […] Continue reading
IV. Popé ~ The strands, knotted leather, each knot of the tether, a message, in passage, denoting together when Pueblo would no longer hide. A signaling system that signified breaking of the yoke and cruel chaffing chide. Augusto de Año, Sixteen-Eighty, The High Time had come, the bell had been rung, and the […] Continue reading
III. A Colony Lost ~ Three generations, from Oñate to here, Sixteen-Eighty, and the changes appear: Caste system conflict among three estates – Religious, Government, and the Colonists – coupled with Distance, which turns to Neglect and Form follows Function to change and correct. The land was harsh – this has its own […] Continue reading
II. Acoma! ~ Upon a hill, impregnable, a mighty fortress, still: a city in the sky upon a mesa stood: Guarded Acoma! Oñate came in Ninety-Eight, incurred the wrath and Pueblo hate, demanding more they could afford – the Natives would deny! and bring about the total rout, this City in the […] Continue reading
~ At the fin de siècle myths are re-newed, and Cibola re-sought for thought to be true. Wealth! beyond measure, there for the leisure to take for España, the King, and their God; but of that brought back, was fraught with the bad, from a land that was called New Mexico. Oñate […] Continue reading
~ I with my camera take shots of the rocks, and ponder the labors all lost. For years upon years, this place remains here, when day after day all trickle away – The memory, a history, a place called Quarai. Once diurnal pueblo of everyday people, now lie your ruins, this place once be-troubled – […] Continue reading
Prologue: [The Mexican people, and the native Pueblo, steal from each other, and fight Navajo. Three native nations, just seeking to Be, elides observation, except Apache.] ~ Hot! is the color of summer air; boiling, the sand, it spreads everywhere. Water adds value – if only there were; God knows! what value, of […] Continue reading
A Kook, On The Kiva …. The Cliff-dwellers, at Bandolier, live there no more. Yet, people still stop to pay their Hellos, where homes have no rooves, windows, or doors, and ask: Why did they leave? Where did they go? What is a Kiva? and What is it for? Some, hold to notions they came […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 
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