TEXAS BLUES
My house is cold tonight,
my kitchen dark.
And Robert Johnson’s singing
will not warm them at all.
We have turned these images
round and round:
crow and calling bird.
My gift has been returned.
Her skin has no comfort.
Rain and reputation hound us
from every early morning door.
We are born from vanity and sin
and gathered from that station
into another’s light.
There is no evil in her possession
though I founder in her
wake.
We are left to ponder deuces –
two gifts in celebration,
Two tricks to let us down.
And Robert Johnson cannot comfort us at all.
R.T. Castleberry
AYN FOUNDATION
(DAS MAXIMUM)
ANDY WARHOL
“The Last Supper”
MARIA ZERRES
“September Eleven”
Brite Building 107-109 N Highland, Marfa
Open weekends noon to 5 p.m or by appointment.
Please call 432.729.3315 or go to
www.aynfoundation.com for more information.
El Solitario
located on HWY 118
located on HWY 118
4 mi. S. of Fort Davis
4 mi. S. of Fort Davis
open 9-5, Mon-Sat
closed major holidays
closed major holidays
Open 9-5, Mon.-Sat.
www.cdri.org
432-364-2499
www.cdri.org
432-364-2499
Among the candellia and ocotillo,
there is a spiraling tantrum tossed terrain,
with the scent of wild mountain cat on the wind
where the heart is a galloping horse
where the heart is a geode with the desert beating inside
Ancient caldera,
once a fertile womb of sand and mud,
your lost children were conceived of lava molten earthquake
and buried among sun baked thorns and cinnabar veins,
eons of bleached bone weave strata and fossil,
the crushed skulls of the ancestors are pinned like butterflies.
Lonely one,
the stars gather over you,
some nights the hand of God reaches down,
runs His fingers along the circles of your moonlit ridges,
dips into the Earth’s marrow
traces the labyrinth
Butterfly Count—July 1
OPEN JULY
4TH
Desert after Dark Night
Hikes—July 9, 16, 23, 30
FEATURES
botanical
gardens
What’s in a Name? Herpetofauna
Lecture on Taxonomy
cactus & succulent greenhouse
and Status—July
14
mining & geology exhibits
Summer Constellations,
Saturn
& the Milky Way
hiking
trails
nature
Stargazing—July 16,
30 shop
Desert Rat Club Summer Day Camp—July 18–22
UPCOMING EVENTS
Annual BBQ
& Benefit
Auction—August
6
Native
Plant
Sale April 27&28
National
Public Garden
Day Mt.
Tours
May 12
Change
your Perspective:
Climb
Livermore
Conservation Across Boundaries Teacher's Workshop
—September 10
June 10 through 19
Butterfly Count—September 17
Fall Bird Count—September 24
Chihuahuan
Institute, Est.
Est. 1974
1974
Chihuahuan Desert
Desert Research
Research Institute,
P.O.
Box 905,
905, Fort
Fort Davis,
Davis, TX
TX 79734
79734
P.O. Box
Darla McBryde
Cenizo
Second Quarter 2012
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