Maiya’s
Chiming bells of a Spanish Baptist church
cover the jittery clatter of gate chain, tardy penitent.
Ocotillo canes are live fences along the sidewalks.
I step from yard to porch, settle to a chair,
survey highway’s scale to wind-gouged mesa.
Bursage and mesquite tangle the valley canyons.
Barefoot, weary,
unkind in my confusion,
I can’t stand my own house.
The current that is
cause and place and treachery
staggers me.
Ridgeline photos lean the walls, cluttering my attention.
Wind jacket, rain jacket, unread mail
layer couch and dining chair.
Spreading a hiker’s bedroll,
tokens salvaged from a desert run
scatter from the blanket:
owl feathers, fossils of flower, bone and bead,
translucent shed of snakeskin.
Sifting them,
silence and the unresolved constrict my chest.
History is a narrative of sins in old diaries,
a succession of summer rooms.
I have a full day to work through.
Italian Cuisine
Seasonal Menu
Diverse Beer & Wine Lists
Signature Cocktails
Open Wed - Sat at 5pm
103 N. Highland Ave
Marfa
432.729.4410
Reading The Desert’s Design
Quilts
Etc.
by
Marguerite
Made in the Big Bend
HWY 118 • Terlingua
3/4 mile N of HWY 170
432.371.2292
C ONTEMPORARY W EST T EXAS A RT
401 N. 5th Street • Alpine TX 79830
(432)837-5999
Representing work by
Charles Bell • Karl Glocke
Ling Dong • Carlos Campana
Hours vary or by appointment
Art and Guitar classes • Weekend workshops offered
Hand-painted signs and graphics
R.T. Castleberry
Cenizo
Third Quarter 2012
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