Sleek coated goats graze roadside,women balance bounties atop their heads ~strong necks carry bananas, sticks, and woven baskets.Roots writhe and wrap through red rocks,a mountain carved for modern passage.School children walk home for lunch,uphill and uplifted, by the looks of their smiles and waves. Perfumed air: stunning notes of wet clay, embers, ripe banana, and … Continue reading more than a drive
travel
a flight, a feeling
To enjoy a joy unfolding and shed the analytical holdingthat binds our minds to pattern-seekingand making meanings ofsmoothed and sparkling stones.To be elated by the moment,without the beckonof becoming someone on the horizon,a vision as opaque and hazyas window grit, deniesthe luscious warmth of clarity.Flow into being.
a new unknown
The trip of a lifetime in honor of the captainwho mustered the crew and resigned. Not from defeat but from dutyto some unopposable divine.That same random rulerdelays the queen’s arrival,another crisis-clotted convergence ~ yet the ship adapts before rivers collapseto release them from hellish penance. Her majesty’s maidens embark.
kiwi supreme
Brain battered bycod — beer fried —potatoes cut, crisped, and salted,oh my! A cheeky reference fora meal fit for wonderland,or was it Oz?The yellow brick roadfloods with tartar sauce,a pinot party noir ~culminating in cheesecakeof peanut proportions.By lemon wedge sailboats and coleslaw archipelagos,we float into dreamseas,our bellies full of bliss.
coils
Peaks and valleys coil,wrapping ‘round the middle,squeezing the life out of hope.Brain mice scurry to settle on consistent inconsistencies:fragmented information as breadcrumbsto a deeper doom of fiction. Hope is hindered but not haltedin the grand halls of uncertainty,edging away fromthe dungeon of despairto travel by airto meet the origin of manto honor an untimed death.
Sur grandísimo
A cloud striped skyshrouds the seabut not enough to shield your rays from my eager eyes.Traffic subsides,carving edges out ofthe beautiful, the lonelypacific coast high.Gilded waves roll over sand-smoothed shores,eroded. Waves moonwalk to meet their set sisters.Viscous, the marine layerflies in formation suddenly dissipating to revealour star —a circle closesand sets.
return and receive
Butterflies boundto the arrival of anotherin flight and fantasy, toconnect across the continent.Four wheels of furyweaving through adisco lit highway,grinding to the beatof orange cones in abandoned work zones.The chorus of homea cherished refrainhalts the hustleas wings spread to receive precious cargo.
Species of Value 