Ye old West signposts, green with needle-spurs:
Santa Rita prickly pear, pancake prickly,
plenteous buckets and sunset pink occurs.
It’s mountain time to sip some wine dearly
as the cacti shadows wax in the desert
and the elephant head’s fading quickly.
Breakfast in the stucco casa like dessert -
a dutch baby with segmented mandarin fruit.
Golden Retriever’s friendly and the striped cat’s curt.
Kabob sidles through crack - cat’s bedroom route,
lies on the visitor’s quilt - comfortably cute.
2/9/2022
Cow Palace, on the Tucson-Nogales Highway,
famous for Hollywood stars like John Wayne.
At first, the sunset tipped its halo light, in my way,
as I tried to get a digital photograph in vain.
My Aunt drove closer, but a trucker pulled up,
then another, right into the parking lot. Seriously?
We pulled in front of him into this crazy setup.
I snapped. Inside business’ closed - flooded imperiously.
Read it has a mud floor and the calendar’s frozen
on September. The piano slowly falls apart. What
a way for a cowboy to say, “Happy Trails.” Chosen
to die with its boots on, The Cow’s tough-undercut.
Easier to photograph was Longhorn, huge rack displayed,
directly across from the slain Cow, who watches roofside.
Amado experienced a monsoon in 2018 - the Cow paid.
So much drama in the Arizona desert - nowhere to hide.
2/9/2022
I will meet you in Nogales. I've crossed the border a many of times before. I can't
began to count no crime just passion.Nogales is our special turf our secret spot where we
both rendezvous. I will meet with you in Nogales. We are mutual friends as well as
intimate lovers no matter what the time is no matter what the circumstances are
nothing can keep us apart. You live in California, I'm down here in Arizona,
Nogales is our place we call home.Nothing is lost in translation the universal
language is love, to be loved. I will meet up with you in Nogales.
International Lovers our presences are well known to others. You are my split apart
when we both agreed to met in Nogales our hearts have been wounded, while others tried
with all their might to destroy our lives personally, I can't bear this pain, this
anguish, this distant solitude living my life not being with you. Left in this world all
alone. When we are apart it drives me insane,for a moment I temporarily forgot my name,
you feel my pain traveling thousands of miles.
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