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New Mexico

soft lavender skies
intertwining with twilight
land of enchantment

Deserts Of New Mexico

Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,
driven by the wind of change.
And I know… it’s not that easy.
Drove a million miles and it is all the same,
spinning through the circles of my mind.
And it’s cold… it’s not that easy.
 
But there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico,
I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.
Yeah, there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico.
I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.
 
Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,
thunder rolling out across the plain.
And I know… it’s not that easy.
Felt it wash away as all the rain came down,
wash away the memories from my mind.
Let it flow… it’s not that easy.
 
Cuz there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico
I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.
Yeah, there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico
I see forever but it’s not…  not as far as I can see.
 
I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.

Driving in New Mexico

the terrain’s more expansive here 
you said, as if obscurities that had been,  
moved aside so the eye 
could soak in highways singing 
restless blues, as if language 
materialized straight from that feeling 
of nowhere coupled with too many 
places to be, and you can see 
what you want to, blanketing the spaces 
with clutter from your mind 
by accident like deja vu 

I keep turning mid-drive 
to stare at the unusual wedding 
of indifference and curiosity, 
your green eyes touching even 
further than the collective 
of what remains         enchantingly 
unspoken

Deserts Of New Mexico

Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,
driven by the wind of change,
and I know… it’s not that easy.
Drove a million miles and it is all the same,
spinning through the circles of my mind,
and it’s cold… it’s not that easy.

But there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico,
I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.
Yeah, there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico.
I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see

Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,
thunder rolling out across the plain,
and I know… it’s not that easy.
Felt it wash away as all the rain came down,
wash away the memories from my mind.
Let it flow… it’s not that easy.

Cuz there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico
I see forever but it’s not… 
not as far as I can see.
Yeah, there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -
on the deserts of New Mexico
I see forever but it’s not… 
not as far as I can see.

I see forever but it’s not… 
not as far as I can see.

On the Payroll of Hillburn City New Mexico

On The Payroll of Hillburn City New Mexico
David J Walker

Imagine 
	That such a lonely city
Ever existed
Placed in the middle 
of two nowhere
Not worth mentioning
 
A single building
The gathering spot for 
Farmers wives far too 
Busy to drive 
to either of 
the distant small towns for
Coffee,	
	Cigarettes 
	Milk and bread
Old cold cuts 
	Maybe out of date

And the daily mail 
In your post office box
In the back 

The newspaper from Lubbock
In the rack
Came yesterday and was
	A day late at that

Not that it matters 
	In a jurisdiction  
Where you must 
pump your own gas 
and then ask
	about the latest gossip 
from the Constable, 
Mayor, & Postmaster, and
The only 
And lonely 
Working citizen on the Payroll
of Hillburn City

Ojo Caliente

Ojo Caliente


Call on John to
submerse me in the 
Holy waters of the 
Ojo Caliente

Cleanse me deep
In the high desert heat
Hidden in  New Mexico 

Where the ancients came to
breathe new life from beneath
the clear clean springs of life

I am weary of the journey
I am weak from wont

I hunger for the feast of thought
And thirst for the first of 
The newness of things yet
To come

Drench me  in rejuvenating
Imaginings 
Give me flight
    And second sight

Call on John to submerse me
Whose voice 
Beckoned Christ 


David J Walker

Zuni Weather

A Zuni who prays every day
Saw a cloud in the sky back in May
He yelled, "Do or die!"
Which made the cloud cry
And that's why its still raining today.

"lowes" New Mexico

I went to the market yesterday,
To buy some needed things;
Coffee and watermelon sorbet,
Pizza and buffalo wings;
Sugar, detergent, and shampoo,
And of course some chicken feed;
Couple of cans of Dinty Moore stew,
I hope that’s all I need!

Next Bus To New Mexico

up to my ankles in icy snow
the dogs wresting the shovel
and running away
the hood of my coat is slipping down over my eyes
my gloves are too big
I feel like a cranky cold five year old
who doesn't know enough to go in

snow after snow I'm sick of this
when's the next bus to New Mexico?

New Mexico

request a transfer
I'd like to try New Mexico
I'm into the heat and sandy colors
bright blue sky rocks and
heat
I need to bake my bones
and see some new illusions
baked red and brown rocks
miles of distant winding nothing
breaking into mountians
I want that inky black western sky
and the scent of sage under the air
a coyote growling close by
a cactus flower

Albuqurque, New Mexico

A beautifully hidden work of art.
Absolutely stunning from the very start.

Vivid colors of purples and pinks.
Fill the setting skies as it sinks.

Mountains surround the city's pride.
Protecting it from the world outside.

The mountains and skies are the words that tell the story.
The building and cultures are the pictures that hold the glory.

Listen close so you can hear the wind telling the tale.
It will teach you beauty, please dont be stale.

Close your mind and open your heart.
And you'll love it from the start.

By: Cherica Eckiwaudah

New Mexico~

Kaolin ceramics shelved for display
A framed mirror suggests a window into time
Fortifications in a continuum surround this fortress

Inside a Southwestern style is secured
Bulldozing nature for architectural delight
Rich in warm tones and textures of stucco
Baroque oval portals lead into substructures

Endearing pine stripped.....stained to perfection 
Strategically placed beamed ceilings finesse 
Whitewashed antlers hang above a fireplace
Not a hunters home but a setting of one once known

A water well stands with an antique pump 
As an unyeilding sun drenches the broken claylike ground
Genuinely revealing a life long past
In Beautiful New Mexico a Southwestern home  is found





~This was inspired by Brian….and his Cameo piece~I hadn't used or seen the 
word KAOLIN in some time...and it reminded me of the west....hence, I used the 
word first and went from there~

New Mexico

home to cowboy graves
people still worship the news
all the death,a-famed

A Visit To El Santuario De Chimayo, Northern New Mexico

A sense of the sacred
permeates these grounds
where El Santo Niño de Atocha walks

A sense of the truly holy
infuses the wind in the air,
the leaves in the wind
& that holy wind breathes itself into 
You,
the traveler here in search
of a miracle

A soft and single
splash of water kisses your praying hands,
then sparkles down
into the healing, blesséd earth
that gives beneath your resting knees
and you realize
you are in the middle of a shining, gentle rain

Your heart and mind stretch heavenward 
and deep into your soul
as you continue your prayer,
kneeling, as you are,
on this holy, sacred land

Then a clean, clear drift
of shimmering, silent snow
brushes your face, your
heart, your mind and soul
with a singular grace and beauty

And you gaze dreamily up in wonder,
with strong and joyful tears
of truth and comprehension
baptizing your uplifted, enraptured face

 As you know, and as you feel
throughout your entire being,
that you are healed,
forgiven,
and ever, forever belovéd

New Mexico Cowboy

For lovers fighters and wild bronc riders
 heres to the boys from new mexico
we have no trifles 
we hang our balls upon the walls and shoot  'em down with rifles 
when sex rare we'll rape a bear and sleep in dirty ditches 
we'll show them texan boys we're some bad  sons of god

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