in the desert. albuquerque, nm

"Retirement is the laboratory of the spirit; interior solitude and silence are its two wings. All great works are prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world. The precursors, the followers, the Master-Himself, all obeyed or have to obey one and the same law. Prophets, apostles, preachers, martyrs, pioneers of knowledge, inspired artists in every art, ordinary men and the Man- God, all pay tribute to loneliness, to the life of silence, to the night."
- a.g. sertillanges

concrete.

Today my girl got in a fight with concrete. She took a jab to the nose. I wasnt't near to catch her, and I guess that's how it's gonna go.

corpus christi, texas. feb 20, 2010

i've been crossing the corpus christi bridge for 31 years. my grandma reminded me of the time when we knifed peanut butter on wonder bread and fed it to gluttonous bay gulls. granddad and uncle j'b's ashes remain in First Methodist Church on shoreline drive where Jesus reaches out over the waters to calm the wind and storm. I got real sick once, in one of those cruise boats. never been able to hold my shrimp well on ocean legs. i've ordered 100 whata burger jr.'s from the drive-thu window of that orange and white stripped a-framed building, with my grandfather at the wheel. 8 years ago i drove 1200 miles with a girl to introduce to her to south texas and uncles and aunts and grandparents. we did hand stands in the brown sand out behind the Sand Piper where the san dunes build shifting mounds in the wind and the seaweed and tar hang out. out where my mom, 28 years earlier was learning to surf and my dad was learning of her. back miles, when they were young and electric, before highways were paved and muscular dystrophy prematurely stole breath. all the buildings remain the same, just everything else material and non has changed.

"these roads don't move, your the one who moves."
j kerouac

cheshire moon

Cheshire moon smiling at a bunch of floating diamonds.

little rock, arkansas

hey, wild card.

"From all we have learned about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics."

- Schrodinger

lingering swami's hang.

"do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. why should you ruin yourself?

- eccless 7:16

red eye flight. 10:45pm. Valentine's night.

St. Louis, MO
red eye, red eyes, in the twi-light, waking in the snow, leaving the santa anna flow across the dessert in my back yard into the window, where the loveliest of chirps chime.