Beach Day in Photos
Yesterday was a beach day. I had things to do, and they had to be done by Monday (and they still have to be done by Monday), but every now and again, you just have to go to the beach. Salt air and a...
View ArticleThe Living Past
2 October, 1835, the Texas Revolution began at Gonzales, Texas. Several years earlier, the Mexican government had granted the town a cannon for protection against the Comanche raids that were common in...
View ArticleGoing to Aggiecon!
Yes, indeed I am. It seems that there was some speculation as to whether I am a human being or a phantom of the internet, so to put those questions to rest, I will be appearing in a fleshship person at...
View ArticleMocking Sky – a poem
The Texas winter mocks with dust instead of snow and bare mesquite to testify with thorns against a shred of weakness. The Texas winter gusts fiercely from the south - grit on lips, in eyes, on tongues...
View ArticleRiverbank Children – A Poem
To the boy in the green canoe: You brought a hopeful fishing pole down here to the iron river and with eager hands cast out your line to plumb the depths of a crystalline morning. The whitewashed banks...
View ArticleVersos release is tomorrow!
And I am excited! You can pick up your Kindle copy on Amazon here. The paper edition will be appearing there sometime tomorrow. XV The schoolyard is a place of dust, apple cores, chamoy, salty and...
View ArticlePapalotes – Texas poetry
The poetic ethnography is published, and up next is a book for my wild Lone Star State. I don’t say that it will be published any time soon; it’s still very much in the works. But it is close to my...
View ArticleWaiting for the rain – a poem
One palm waves in the distance, and the mockingbird above me is silent, waiting for the deluge to begin. Dark sky. Dark earth. And silence.
View ArticleAquifer – a poem
I am far away but the sky is very near and the earth smells of life and limestone My feet caked with white dust and oak pollen stretch deep to find water.
View ArticleStorm – a poem
Rain on the horizon the brindled Texas sky Predator-striped Stalks Charges The unsuspecting land below.
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