More New Mexico images:     1     2     3     4     5     6 New Mexico, August 2003, II The way to be here is to have already let go a premature autumn, brought on by drought I feel the desert’s followed me here • lizard slate lantern rollingthunder beetle pinecone fire ant oversky hummingbird cedarroot horse pineridge fireflower spiral hillock branchdancing • the storm instead calls you: making a reverberent nexus locus of the headland where you stand, half-hollowed, pavement stones, cacti echoing with song; instead of being that half-voiced throw becomes a dream inside your breast, keelstone altarstone chamber for its threatening music. hummingbirds, fleeting and beautiful as creatures of routine; returning to the same wingbeat and treasure identical. a circle of stones, half-made, half-grown; figments of local bedrock ground to dust then raised on edge night’s steady, lightened consolations; it beats, bird-heart, stone’s bright exhalation, and you fill with it; heron heart has woven a tapestry of awakening. never pause to wonder; the stranger on the path is yourself, that you meet between stone and stone. • heron watercress lichenlick red raven wavelap rootsnarl gray hare gullfeather gravelstep black fireweed gilldew seagroin blue • wind in trees stars obscured, bright Mars looking south from Zuni Mountain Sanctuary towards the Ramah Navajo Res. One morning, the neighbor's horses wandered onto ZMS Fence, high desert, New Mexico ZMS, looking north towards the Zuni Mountains, NM The desert in bloom, ZMS HIgh desert scene, ZMS Desert flowers, ZMS Los Gigantes, near ZMS Trainyard, Grants, NM Night, ZMS Santa Fe, NM More New Mexico images:     1     2     3     4     5     6

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