New Mexico Is
The Desert Planet
....
.............................. for AnnieOut the window a
roadrunner creeps
by my sleeping dog,
sees its shadow
& declares six
more weeks of
Chinese New Year. It
is the Year
Of The Snake &
there are so many worlds
in me because when I
hold you I remember
most everything:
Euripides by heart
the population of
Timbuktu
the odor of the
apocalypse
Corso was as much a
trickster as coyote
New Mexico is the
desert planet & how
much rain blew in off
the Irish Sea the day
St. Patrick chased
the snakes away.
When you hold me I'm
a gangster
without portfolio
all of my winds hiss
& I use them to
measure the years in
us
the number of wild
things in us
by their shadows,
touch
& sound
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