Monday, April 27, 2009

Nevada Haiku

Nuclear test site
sun-burnt skeletal buildings
functional chapel






If these aren’t badlands
then I don’t know what would be
a graceful blackbird






In a narrow pass
anthropomorphic rock face
observes Mount Shasta






The ducks move sideways
in the rapid rail-side stream
the hills get furry






Two rock formations
one is black the other white
shaped like human skulls






Ghost mountain haunts me
keeps looking in my window
outside of Elko






Along the phone lines
insulators hang mid-air
trucks duel on the road

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