📁 008
« ten days out west »
words written on the road
read by Jasper Briggs
Cars, cars, trucks, vans,
and more cars
Flags, trucks, tractors, Flags,
old houses, new homes out of
wood or brick, bricked homes,
barricaded homes
Gas stations, gas pumps, fuel
and more fuel
Days and hours and more days
and nights, long nights, gas stations
and rest stops, parking lots
road and more road,
coffee, hot water for tea,
more coffee and more tea,
bad coffee, still coffee
So far Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Missouri, Kansas to Colorado
then back to the road
landscapes, flat lands, more land,
no land, Navajo land, cattle, grass,
trees, bark, old homes and new homes,
tumbleweeds, motels, ghost towns
no towns, more towns, more fields
train tracks blue skies cold winds
more road more road more road
still road
Title: Another Roadside Attraction
📁 004
so it is
so it was
with a gust of wind
the sail has filled
and the ship has sailed
oil grease
engine check
air in the tires to the brim
the mechanics spit
it will get us far, he says
though unlikely it will bring us back
with little to think
both convened
far is good—
far is good enough
so it was
so it is
« 10 days out west »
📁 003
Slippery slope
The turtle took a risk
It stuck its neck out of its shell
and into the cold stinging air
to feel what it is like to breath
Our days are numbered
yet I have still lost count
11,000 on the dashboard
How many more to come
Why then move to tomorrow
what can be done today?
~ words written on the road
« 10 days out west »
📁 001
about a year ago on the spur of the moment Jasper and I packed up his truck and decided to leave NY and head out west with no particular destination in sight. We had no real home to return to, and a growing desire within us to be free took precedent— so we took to the road
« 10 days out west »
or what was supposed to be
Song is « The Homeless Wanderer » by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
~ Totems
a second life
salvaged wood chopped and screwed
[Totem: a natural object that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem.]
bonus: my dog’s snoring breath on the first Totem
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