Amigo’s, I know it has been months, an unforgivable amount
of time since I have posted anything amongst these pages. It’s been a long dry spell. I aim to force these things as the long
hot days of summer push themselves forward. I hope to start forcing my way through Muskrat and
transcribing its pages onto the interweb.
I Hope to offer you new poems and amblings and brain farts over the
summer. Until then, here is
something simple, a few paragraphs, one new, one found in my cardboard box of
typewritten pages from last year.
The black silhouettes of a startled flock of birds on grey
asphalt, early morning commutes from telephone line to telephone line. Telephone line black bird
silhouettes framing bicyclists in vintage frames of telephone wires in an era
of online messages and phones meant for anything except talking. Muskrat doesn’t do much talking in
person much less over telephones these days, mumbles and stumbles over his
words fine tuning them in conversations in his head he never manages to convert
into appropriate gram to cup, mouth to ear ratios in face to face
interactions.
There is an Old Weller Whiskey bottle half empty and
collecting dust in the back recesses of Muskrat’s Denver memories. It sits on a drafting table surrounded
by dead roses and unfinished art projects, a pen and ink portrait of Willie
Nelson, bathroom comics, instructions for flushing grey water toilets and a
southwest green chili cookbook. A
few years and a few hundred miles southbound, Smokey Robinson is singing over
coffee shop airwaves and Muskrat is digging under dead snow pea vines. Underneath a green candle is the first
and final page of a scribbled attempt at a garden journal. Over the Sandia’s and south towards the
Manzano Mountains black rain clouds are gathering, skirting the issue and
teasing the metro area with a light smell of rain filtering in through the
swamp coolers.
Until next time, be safe, ride free, solidarity in struggle
and dreaming.
And dear dear Mink, I promise a full blog letter soon.
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