Train a Day
Desert and dry wind
pissed me into myself,
made me king of a day and
hot sauce with words, barbed wire
fences, locust flights and
the whole jawing prairie
that chews its own
tumbleweed and sage …
Dust seems to follow
wherever I go.
The voices of stars
pour out from the
mouths of clouds.
Here I stand howling
in plain desert wind
marching toward
Main Street with
more than what slinks across
the unpaved desert roads,
then turns and goes
straight black from there.
I’ll go anywhere
the moon gaze goes,
with summer's glad nights
to soak me warm.
Moonlight bounces
off my brain and I can’t
keep up with the dry sweat
of day-old dreams. My
beaming eyes stay closed
with what I know.
Big souls talk
the talk of distance;
long arms embrace
the dark-seeming
sky. A city
flickers full of lights
checks its own stars again—
such a warm ironic touch.
A crate full of peppers
waits for the poets
on the stoop while
cowboys rescue another dozen
angel-blackened men,
this time huddling
in the town, in the dark
of a broken down
field car.
We all hold tight
to safe wooden grates until
the untold wind climbs down
to remind us of the reason
we are here.
All that’s left
for us to do now
is to stir the black wet air
with a painted fiddle poke,
touch the color of our sleep,
shift our bodies like warm thick grease
oozing from the axle whose iron wheels
shake loose powdered flakes of rust
that fall like brown snow,
down from the trellis bridge
down from the trellis bridge
all the way to hell to settle
on the hopeful road we rode
as we shake our way back through the
whole night’s rusted iron sky.
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