Taos Mountain In Summer, July 2007, behind Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Taos Mountain summer
wraps hard rain around soft bows
I’m drenched to the bone
black clouds in blue sky
slatted swing over the ditch
creaks slowly, I write
rain crawls through roof cracks
gusts blow open my notebook
words scatter to wind
cottonwood splashes
through the lens, afternoon rain
breaks open the sky
end of a long day
in the middle of summer
I start to wake up
green sky through laced glass
and a mourning dove’s red eye
swallows the noon sun
walking the back path
Mabel smiles from the window
I wink and then nod
black spider shimmers
cottonwood squeezes soft wind
through a glistening web
sweat drips from my arm
I don’t sit like the mountain
the sun sits on me
Lawrence and Brett stroke
painted windows in the light
camel hair bristles
the Pink House once held
summer rain, live wires that dodge
breakfast at Mabel’s
fancy dancers run
lightning drips through the pow wow
under Taos Mountain
Monday, July 16th, 2007
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