it's long desert stretches that

i want for.

adobe houses and horses

some leftover los angelean/santa fe

replica cheap art and lonely hotel

house on a frontier-stead

whizzing in my head

all orangey and dusky and

full of heavy odor

things of death and danger

and romance.

weary.

vignette.

repose.

sweep on down across the west

and on into the deep green of a

tennessee williams louisiana.

pearls and goodbye kisses,

lace, a cream colored cheek and

so long.

for the story written down.

my womanly, southern heart.

goodbye out west,

so long.