1130 Miles: 29 Days: Cement

the reasons for these
structures
bedrock
foundation
skeletal
silence or location
and their absence
sound and the absence of sound
I am talking about words
trying to model language
a stone tossed into a still pond
trying to make them solid
reliable permanent
as music is
as love is
as light is

or is not

Cement
Originally uploaded by vajra

1130 Miles: 29th Day

First Snow

Shameless how you cannot help but

smile at the cold white 

man in thin clothes at the corner who

begs for gas to get back home.

1180 Miles: #28: Fall Grass

Fall Grass
Originally uploaded by vajra

Autumn has arrived
warm and wet
lover's kiss before he says
goodbye
for the last kiss familiar urgent
insistant he remembers
you remember
those hot nights
filled with succulent promise
now come and gone
Summer's fruit eaten
what remains in glass

beside the walk
the grass bends announcing
the unknown
Spring

1130 Miles: 28th Day: Amor

Amor

May the kiss of the humming find us.

May the flame not flicker

as the night turns to winter.

Cupid or asteroid: Amor.

We'll buy piñon & stack it outside

just within reach from the double glass doors.

1130Miles: 27 Days: Jewels

Jewels
Originally uploaded by vajra

10.16.09




Silence starts to break and
open the sound of early
voices in the cafe
like the Canada geese
so loud and so early
I hope they are tourists
just passing by

1130 Miles: 27th Day: Unusual Buddha: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

From his shoulders hang pleasure alms

bleached snail shells strung

Mineral bath visitors loiter &

rest easier here for his melancholy eyes

& patient ears

1130 Miles: 26th Day: Crabapple Manna

Crabapple Manna

Step just outside

my front door for

a picnic blanket of red

the smallest apples ever

from Eden

1130 Miles: 26 Days: Stepping Through

first sight Sandia
blue as the dawning of
that first day before
they turned
and walked through the gate
leaving those roses
behind

Gateway
Originally uploaded by vajra

1130 Miles: 25th Day: Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup

From 'U' peers a pair of pointed ears
In 'Y' my eyes to Heaven
Oddly like falling down the rabbit hole
The shadows lend a clue
Everything we learned before
depends on the arrangement of
these letters.

1130 Miles: 25 Days: Longtime Fan

On The Grid
Originally uploaded by vajra

first set's about to begin
I'm here for the last set
John Prine
forty years of music
isn't enough