the hours rise up putting off stars and it is dawn
into the street of the sky light walks scattering poems
on earth a candle is extinguished
the city wakes with a song upon her mouth
having death in her eyes
and it is dawn
the world goes forth to murder dreams….
i see in the street
where strong...

If my road trip showed me nothing else, it showed me how diverse the geography and landscape is out West. I came across deserts, canyons, meteor craters, volcanoes, ice caves, lava fields and tubes/caves, mesas, mountains, fault lines, gorges, waterfalls, geysers, natural hot springs and sulfur springs....

I'm in Amarillo, Texas, tonight for the second night of my road trip. We ate at the Big Texan Steak Ranch for dinner — my road trip book recommended it. It was pretty good.  The most interesting part about it was the deal where if you could eat a salad, dinner rolls, three jumbo shrimp and a 72...