Pondering at Promontory Point
“May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” – Engraved on the golden spike It was a cloudless day …
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[ Once upon a golden never ]
Once upon a golden neverWas — or not — a perfect landTo whose shores the sea danced gladly,Gently kissed the blessed sand. In that uncorrupted nowhereMountains rose without a threatInto …
Mud and Honey
Her sentimental spirit washes freewhen clay and sediment come sliding down,so if she cries, a man is bound to seea river in her eyes but twice as brown.I hold her …
Pepito at Peace
The Nationalists nevermarched down Calle Margaritaeven when they took Caranqueno fascist boottouched these stones. Pepito sits on a white flat rock,elbow of his flannel shirt torn, both kneespatched in black. …
Arroyo
Just north of El Prado, the land slopes down toward Hondo Valley. A green Forest Service truck and vintage motorbikes rest inside the curve of a nearby switchback, rimmed with …