Action Alert: Mustangs On The Hill. September 28, 2009

 
First, below is a history of the mustangs provided by (and all photos courtesy of):  National Wild Horse Adoption Day
America’s mustangs are the descendants of wild horses brought to the New World by Spanish explorers and missionaries in the 16th century. Others come from stock that were released or escaped from miners, ranchers, homesteaders and others [...]

The Muse’s Fire September 12, 2009

Morning:
The simple facts are naked and pink;
a reviving number of sun-lit breaths,
a second helping of morning,
golden opportunities to make time fly  
or scratch the dog’s back in lazy circles.
 
Noon:
Coffee rising. A non-option, really,
those stale afternoons littered with yesterday’s prayers
that smell like old rain and stomp the stairs
going nowhere fast. Waiting for the churlish skies
scrubbed childlike and [...]

Ouroboros September 9, 2009

 
Knock knock (on the stars).
Who’s there? Some form of God –
The wise old man who paces the sky as his floor.
The merciful mother who etches her face into tortillas
and cries down the cheeks of statues for her true believers –
 
How can you tell it’s real?
How can you say it’s not?
When the moon foreshadows the weeping days
and the sun breaks all [...]