1130 Miles: X11: Trying To Be Blue

Trying To Be Blue Originally uploaded by vajra.

no blues too low

to sing

no sorrow too deep

to write

no day so glorious as

today

1130 Miles: Day 10

Faces on the wall, adjacent to the night
dining with women who are being watched
by women. We in the flesh --
one teacher, another
moving away from us &
you on the bench where I drape my arm
up and behind you --
No shawl, no shell, all black and white --
etched in

1130 Miles: 10th Day: Simplicity

after the first flush

of roses wanes

and the agapanthus slowly unfurls

Egyptian wonder

there is always a dandelion

cheerful

or ethereal

but there

1130 Miles: Week 9: Hill Blocks View

What view but
these southern hills
I pull over
to follow directions

1130 Miles: 9th Day: Starlight

Starlight Originally uploaded by vajra.

not only night reveals the glory

of stars this too has

its dark light

listen

the scent of jasmine

1130 Miles: Day 8: Home

 

Home on the grass, we are

parents at loose ends
our daughter in the air for the east
where it is raining in the city of little sleep

1130 Miles: 8thDay: Tequila Blues

Tequila Blues Originally uploaded by vajra.

spending days and hours

searching

for the precise shade

blue

like the Sandia

or Sangre

which are named

sweet summer watermelon

or blood of Christ

yet call me most often

like frozen lakes

or lupine

or sky
sky blue
as
blue
as blue
in my mind's
eye