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Picking Piñon

Saturday afternoon, having returned home, nothing much pressing to do but lie down on the green sheets in fall heat with the ceiling fan switched on. I reach for a book. Just c ome from south side of town, El Dorado , where an 80 year old friend read her poems, restless lullabyes, while outside in the half demolished parking lot construction workers hollered.  Afterwards three of us pulled off for salad, burger, a potent porter in tall cool glass, and Shaker lemon pie - thin granulated citrus slices hidden in crust thick as the aired out top soil after sporadic monsoon. We talked of the mistakes that poets make. Downtown, fiesta . Don Diego, his court, and young unmarried  reina cross the plaza.  I drive the opposite direction, down Old Las Vegas Highway and spy the old ones, abuelas and their granddaughters pulling dark colored cars off to the side of the road, seeking shade. They exit with weathered sticks and flat, sturdy pillows. Together they will squat to share stories un

Ruins

I am the man asleep on the stoops of others, never to return to the warm places inside. Crooked in the morning, thirsty, the river freezes in winter. This is the mortgage of my homelessness. No leisure in this. No romance in nowhere. No shame in the hump of belongings on my back. Man seen and not seen Volcano of a world erupted. from the Shape of Caught Water Red Mountain Press 2013 www.redmountainpress.us