Saturday, September 29, 2018

September Flying Carpet 2018

In September
The Flying Carpet
saddled up and was rarin' to go to Texas
on a whirlwind trip

 
On the road, the wrecked billboards advertised blue sky
in the spaces between rotted boards and shredded ads

“Icy bridge” signs proclaimed unseasonable disaster

In Amarillo at the Coyote Bluff Cafe

 


translucent pack horses hauled neon beer signs



After a Texas shaped waffle for breakfast (!)
on the way to Dallas
“4,000 Cowboy Hats
20 miles ahead”

At the Turquoise Coffee Shop at Chillicothe

Cowboy and cowgirl silhouettes
sun-blasted plants
black thumbs


a sense of abandonment
 


We drove
 "Till the wheels fall off and burn”


No words needed



So glad I
 “waltzed across Texas with you”

Thanks to my sidekick, Zachariah