Saturday, February 12, 2011

Truth or Consequeces, NM

There are places that still have two names



The first may be starchy
and ill-fitting like a paper gown, made
for the figure of no one.

The other is earth-brown,

left over from when,
as if before birth,
the land still bore the placental name
it wore while lying
un-touched
under water.

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