Route 66
Cuervo, New Mexico

“Here is the world of wolves and bears and of old, instinctive being, so noble and indifferent as to be remote to human knowing.  The scales upon which we seek a balance measure only a divide.”

            ~from the poem “Division” by N. Scott Momaday

A Love Supreme

Dog’s collar, bleached white bones

Icons of yarn and nip and paperback strips

Stuck in the sweetgrass

The Taos sky a windblown gray

Penitente heart, penitente wind

Crying in the cottonwood grove

Disco dance under broken bourbon glass

Trinkets and tin and cellophane 
Spinning shards of silver light

High on the mountain her wind sings

As pine bough strings

Strumming

His colorless dreams

Nieves penitentes

Pointing icy fingers to the noonday sun

Solar radio hums

Sangre de Cristo

Old man river far below

Cold and low

Before it sings of spring

A magpie sings to her lover

Undercover willow canopy

Tail above nest

Water steams from a skinny-dipping spring

Singing “A Love Supreme”



“A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUapMTgWD0