"When dawn spreads its paintbrush on the plain, spilling purple... ," Sons of the Pioneers theme for TV show "Wagon Train." Dawn on the mythic Santa Fe Trail, New Mexico, looking toward Raton from Cimarron. -- Clarkphoto. A curmudgeon artist's musings melding metaphors and journalism, for readers in more than 150 countries.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Weatherbeaten poetry

Whose hands
crafted a future relic
With pride and care
Measuring and cutting
nailing and painting
admiring and hanging?
Watching it age
like the hands that made it.
Till one day
repairable no longer,
stained with years,
it returns slowly
whence it came.

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