A B*tch in a Sandstorm, with love

DopeBeastie
DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
edited June 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Face the wind
with a chin on your shoulder.
Your arms 'round me.
Our bellies talking
despite the blown silence.

Scan desert horizons
the sandstone, the bluff,
the occasional green sage
(the wet, gracious this winter)
for skinwalkers.
Biding equanimity,
we,
and a place to rest.
This low mum
says don't let go.
Clip quick about a waist
and stay.
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  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    oh... and skinwalkers are a navajo myth
    they can take off and/or change their skin to look like coyotes or elk or whatever they want

    they can be seen clipping along highways at night
    laughing at drivers and causing them to wreck


    pretty scary shit as far as tradition goes
    the navajo wont even mention them for fear of calling one up to them

    quite the bad little omen, as it were


    (forgive me if i've written this before, lol... such the spaz)


    cya
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    This has me thinking of a couple embracing eachother in that sandstorm--everything's all a muddle blowing around them, all unsure and questioning--but they are constant, they are one, together, braving all the elements. :)

    "don't let go"--no, don't let go...definately hold close :)

    A whirlwind of wonderful, PastaNazi! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    oh thank you, lovey!

    i was hoping that came out well...

    i wonder if i show the desert enough

    g'DAMN it's pretty this year! we had so much snow and rain in january... more than ever

    usually, the sage looks black, like it's been on fire but this year, everything's so green


    funny though, how NOT moving and continuing to place oneself in one's landscape... things start looking very familiar from poem to poem, yes?
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    PastaNazi wrote:
    oh thank you, lovey!

    i was hoping that came out well...

    i wonder if i show the desert enough

    g'DAMN it's pretty this year! we had so much snow and rain in january... more than ever

    usually, the sage looks black, like it's been on fire but this year, everything's so green


    funny though, how NOT moving and continuing to place oneself in one's landscape... things start looking very familiar from poem to poem, yes?

    Yousa welcomes!!!! :D

    I could see the desert in my mind's eye and it was beautiful! :) Mind you, you could always write some more and expand on it's beauty if the feeling takes hold. :)

    There's nothing wrong with writing about the familiar! It's what you know best and each time you create a differnt piece of the landscape. Plus, sometimes it's nice to have a recurring theme--it's a signature and it can be what makes some people remember---"hey, that's a PastaNazi piece". :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    aww schnucks!

    you should write one about canoeing :D
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    PastaNazi wrote:
    aww schnucks!

    you should write one about canoeing :D

    Aha! :D Funny you should mention that, I started one up last night after our pals took us out for the tour...only it blew donkey dong so I scrapped it and wrote the "Nothingman" one I posted instead! :)

    I don't like to try to force them out so, if I get a flow going with it, I'll hopefully get a good one out about the canoe trip! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

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