"durango" poems
Willets cull the seawall
snapper on the grill
rock ***** swoon
in shallow lagoons
long boats pass
under quiet
palm shade
Plovers dance and flutter
handrails frayed and torn
graffiti spots
at lovers rock
frigate-birds fall
from a high
noon sun
Thatched roof on a mud wall
fish flags settle score
anchors arch
in front line march
pillar cracks form
under rust brown scars
Elegant tern and grebe
watchmen fall in cue
children play
on crested waves
whimbrels and notchers
perch above Tentaciones
Striped pelícanos
the bandits of the sea!
merchants grow
in steady flow
siblings jostle
in a tide cooled sand
Heerman gull and boobie
durango smoke in yurt
boiler shrimp
and puffer blimp
castle buckets and scrapers
under a dusk light cheroot
Six pulls on a lead line
painted toes in sand
shearwater run
in a rainbow sun
the portly mexicano
flaunts his tacos
and wares
Rooster house for swordfish
bamboo shoots and sails
broken shells
and ocean swells
rise
on the
perfect
La Ropa bay
Apr 14, 2017
Apr 14, 2017 at 2:22 PM UTC
She met him south of the border in Durango,
She was hot and boy could she fandango!
She said at a glance
"Señor like to dance?"
“No”, he replied, “But I would love to tango!”
Mar 13, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 at 8:56 AM UTC
You, saying love
You, shaman's road
You, a bird
You, a yellow sun
You, Emperor
You, lovely door
You, my Walt Whitman
You, Neal
You, Sal Paradise
You, Pancho Villa
You, La Revolución Mexicana
You, navajo
You, the border
You, the river
You, chicana
You, Mafia
You, redemption
You, poetry
You, Salvador Dalí
You, Picasso
You, stereo
You, love
You, ***
You, youth
You, America
You, América
You, español
You, english
You, country side
You, cat
You, fire
You, books
You, E. E. Cummings
You, Bukowski
You, Octavio Paz
You, Coca-Cola
You, Coke
You, India
You, Mississippi
You, jazz
You, Miles
You, Davis
You, water
You, rain
You, lagoon
You, chest
You, car
You, road
You, reading
You, lines
You, Paris
You, Baudelaire
You, Poe
You, japanese
You, katana
You, Mishima
You, gun
You, rifle
You, cam
You, can
You, can't
You, Durango
You, Arizona
You, desert
You, gonzo
You, mezcal
You, alcohol
You, drive
You, crush
You, alive
You, again
Jun 3, 2013
Jun 3, 2013 at 3:16 PM UTC
where did you go
what did you do
where did you wake up
I went everywhere I could
I am trying to escape
can I escape
been looking for my mind since the pixies asked me to
I did everything I could
to escape myself
over oceans to London
over arctic to Beijing
over prairie and rocks to Durango
traveling looking for myself in everything else
instead of letting go
can't I escape?
I go to work here there and everywhere
What can I get for you guys today
What kind of massage would you like today
Where do you want me to bring this artwork today
Where is my guard post today
can I never get away?
All these thoughts and all these thots
I woke up and ran out of the filthy philly basement on acid molly and nitrous running from bats flying from the speakers
out the house
I crash then stand and smile at police lights and friends drive home from the party
I stand smiling holding her and pray they make it home with all these
bats
I woke up here there and everywhere
Ice bag on my testicles
I awake from my morning bag
to a scared smiling face
I awake with black vision
heart nigh exploding
to crying terrified girlfriends
I awake on my steering wheel
from my weekly drive and cop
to nobody but myself
In bae's comforting arms
In the everlasting eternity my father still believes in
I awaken
I found myself
Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 12:45 PM UTC
Southwestern Dis-United States of Memory
Piñon smoke and sagebrush, voice of New Mexico night driving into an Arizona dawn rising over dreaming pueblos, low-ridden plazas, kivas and ruined cities’ rubble traced and highlighted by sunlight, Anglo angling into Aztec toward Zuni over arid zones… A to Z to El Dorado; a voice covers the high hills with a dusting of snow—every word hangs in the notes of the song: music to fall apart to, breakdown to, hurling the soul into the bottomless well of psychotic nostalgia: música de cavanga, falling into the depths. Melody pushing to the threshold of a bar and leaving you there with cash in your pocket and no ride home. The warmth inside beckons—you step across as the song fills, swells, intoxicates, then excavates the wall of the dam until it collapses. The fatal mistake: you read too much into the lyrics of shallow love songs. The deathwish beast of despair arises, the flooded plains dazzle your eyes, the Indian girl smiles on the rim of the grand canyon, the tattooed cholo pulls a knife in the trailer park, the dark waters under the bridge murmur and surge with regret; el río de Las Animas, Durango CO, Aztec calligraphy on the wall: Las Cruces, NM; Clifton, Morenci, Globe, AZ: stepped pyramids of copper tailings, gang-warred walls in fallen barrios covered in Chicano hieroglyphics, the ruined huts of shepherds and cowboys, pit-house dwellings’ flaked arrowheads and pottery fragments scattered forever in the coyote laugh of desert dusk. Crepuscular colors on the names of mountain ranges: Santa Catalina, Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, each one a separate sunset delirium—then you ride through the night to the city of palm trees and the orange-lined boulevards of Heaven.
The singer herself grew old but her YouTubes live forever.
Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
What a Bass-Head,
the only one to ever fill me with dread.
She asks, "Hey baby, did you forget to take your meds?"
I just needed 3 xanax bars to remember not to forget about her, the girl drinking from the sweet wobbly nectar of the Bass Gods, I'd drop everything to visit her in Oregon.
She once flew to Durango, to road-trip home east, with me the beast. In my jalopy hooptie of a 1992 Corolla, falling apart, ripping at the seams. Across this country we flowed over rivers and streams and poured unhindered by time or space. Through the great sand dunes of Colorado we played our own tunes, the stalagmites and horrid cave crickets of Mammoth Cave Kentucky, It got fucky at a seedy motel in Kansas, another in West Virginia. We make it to Fredericksburg, Viriginia, in the span of less than a week we have roared and soared through half the continent. We spend a night with our settled friends, married now, Shaun and Rachel, lovebirds. Until, home to Philly in one straight shot, through DC **** DC and up through Delaware, we are finally home. A journey complete. Sunsets, mountains, forests, lakes, dunes, beaches, deserts, plains, prairie, and perc 30s. All now a part of our memories,
how sweet they be.
Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM UTC
It took effervescent,
Everlasting,
Highway road sign passings
To get to Colorado
Now I walk
Brooding in the surreptitious snow,
Its gleaming,
Giving meaning,
Trying to reflect back the fact of why were here
The stars are screaming the purpose of life
But we can't hear what isn't near
Light years away is how I spend my day
Reminiscing over you
Under a sky of blue
Durango dreaming of brunette nights,
My final destination's with you in my sights
Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM UTC
Las palabras quisieran expresar los guerreros,
Bellos guerreros impasibles,
Con el mañana gris abrazado, como un amante,
Sin dejarles partir hacia las olas.
Por la ventana abierta
Muestra el destino su silencio;
Sólo nubes con nubes, siempre nubes
Más allá de otras nubes semejantes,
Sin palabras, sin voces,
Sin decir, sin saber;
Últimas soledades que no aguardan mañana.
Durango está vacío
Al pie de tanto miedo infranqueable;
Llora consigo a solas la juventud sangrienta
De los guerreros bellos como luz, como espuma.
Por sorpresa los muros
Alguna mano dejan revolando a veces;
Sus dedos entreabiertos
Dicen adiós a nadie,
Saben algo quizá ignorado en Durango.
En Durango postrado,
Con hambre, miedo, frío,
Pues sus bellos guerreros sólo dieron,
Raza estéril en flor, tristeza, lágrimas.
772
You sit outside on your front porch, with nothing to do but look out on
The dream
Contemplations haunt these new, dusty streets
intersecting in your mind are regrets not easily left behind
Loving the self inflicted pain produced inside
Get up and leave that porch
Make a left and walk until collapse
When will the music come back
A heart attack almost welcoming
A deer in the headlights
Swerve right
Durango has a high high
height
Grips me
Grabs me
Lusts me
Locks me a POP chorus run off rails
Unspecified Undesirable Unseen
But
Understood.
U-Turn leave the
Unholy
Otherworldly siege of temptations
Judas Iscariot ascending as Icarus
Only to realize inevitably dust settles
What becomes of one with a broken compass?
Who leads who in a world of acidreaming prophecies ?
An age of false promises and dot.com **** Bellaire
Ownership
My land of the free
Your home of the Brave
New World without bees
Sweat a skip in the record
Burn what you think you should do
Listen to the ghosts inside your head
Blur… just ******* blur EVERYTHING
Become anonymous
Become famous
Drop out
Knock out Lady Luck AHHHH ****
Because it is importantly cool not togiveafuck
Lumpy lopsided souls stand in line
Don’t drug inject fluoride Put a plug in the self deprecating whines or get back in line with a gaze of blight
Beg for pearly whites
Everything conspicuous
Everyone a conspiracy
Eat WalledoffStreet as it crumbles
Cash in
Sell out
What?
Yourself. (Ascend)
“Cultivate” your garden ************
Not you, Him. who? Johnny Flynn the Banjo God
I will tell you without being candid. You are Candide. And No one will give you what you need
Icy desolated deserted
Macdade Boulevards across lands of death
Induce a sigh of your own breath
Whispering
Eli Eli lama Sabachthani
In deduction
Of an ethnographic construction
I’ll stay in flux
From one State frustrating
Across the lines of another contemplating
The beautiful country Delco
Far! Far … ~away~ >forever inside
Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 5:40 PM UTC
walk in to the room
a circle of souls
transcribed
to be seated beneath the tapestry
beat beat, strum strum
where are you from
here is where I am from
beat beat,strum strum
carry on as always
business as usual
always
downtown for a pint
sip sip, ** hum
let's get out of this town
let's do something with our lives
shall we?
I retreat to beneath the mountain
here is a home
Only in the hands of infinite creation
does man find comfort
Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 10:08 PM UTC
Find my waltz to dance with you my Romeo
A dark symphony breaks the silent night
within the souls you have no any escrow
still you've took a risk not too bright
Hold my hand we'll swing 'til it hurts
There's no horizon to this final view
To you, my heart is pouring blue spurts
Let's disappear a while unwrite every cue
Crawl into my thoughts, the thin line of sanity
grab my head and drown me into your love
hey dear, please hang up the wire to reality
and honey, we're the ones dancing above
Don't be afraid of losing all the floor
I may say goodbye just for a while
but tonight I'll wait outside your door
ans for sure i'll kiss your stupid smile
May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 2:18 PM UTC
Ya la provincia toda
reconcentra a sus sanas hijas en las caducas
avenidas, y Rut y Rebeca proclaman
la novedad campestre de sus nucas.
Las pobres desterradas
de Morelia y Toluca, de Durango y San Luis,
aroman la Metrópoli como granos de anís.
La parvada maltrecha
de alondras, cae aquí con el esfuerzo
fragante de las gotas de un arbusto
batido por el cierzo.
Improvisan su tienda
para medir, cuadrantes pesarosos,
la ruina de su paz y de su hacienda.
Ellas, las que soñaban
perdidas en los vastos aposentos,
duermen en hospedajes avarientos.
Propietarios de huertos y de huertas copiosas,
regatean las frutas y las rosas.
Con sus modas pasadas
y sus luengos zarcillos
y su mirar somero,
inmútanse a los brillos
de los escaparates de un joyero.
Y después, a evocar la sandía tropa
de pavos, y su susto manifiesto
cuando bajaban por aquel recuesto...
¡Oh siestas regalonas,
melindre ante la jícara que humea,
soponcio ante la recua intempestiva
que tumba las macetas de las pardas casonas;
lotería de nueces,
y Tenorio que flecha el historiado
postigo de las rejas antañonas!
Paso junto a las lentas fugitivas: no saben
en su desgarbo airoso y en su activo quietismo,
la derretida y pura
compensación que logra su ostracismo
sobre mi pecho, para ellas holgadamente
hospitalario, aprensivo y munificente.
Yo os acojo, anónimas y lentas desterradas,
como si a mí viniese
la lúcida familia de las hadas,
porque oléis al opíparo destino
y al exaltado fuero
de los calabazates que sazona
el resol del Adviento, en la cornisa
recoleta y poltrona.
646
Bronco is adrift in the city
But walks a straight line
Some slicker said he liked his costume
Bronco doesn’t mind
He got it that no one wears spurs in Durango
That’s just fine
He’s moving along with the times
He’s in town to find a wife
They met on the Internet
Emily teaches the second grade
Hasn’t met her dude yet
She grew up on a farm
Where there isn’t much shade
Attractive she is, prim and petite
They are each out to find that someone to meet
Arriving is Bronco with no swagger there
He takes his hat off, brushes his hair
Rings the doorbell, he could swear
He’s never seen anyone prettier before
She invites him in, he sits in the easy chair
The dinner she’s made is succulent and sweet
Magic is in the air, “Ain’t life a treat,”
Bronco says to himself and almost clicks his heels
He’ll be back next week, will soon seal the deal
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023 at 9:59 AM UTC
Down in Harlem, no one dares to question
hands up? no problem,
something going on and definitely wrong
down there.
Durango!
eureka, I got it, not Fandango but Durango
and not Eureka that's East of the Pecos
or it might be one of the other three directions.
so where's Fandango then?
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024 at 12:55 AM UTC