13x15 cm, 32 pages, 250 gsm white Strata card cover,  sewn with red twist.  The cover photograph, taken by Jackson in 1871, shows the U.S. Geological and Geophysical Survey of the Territories, conducted by Hayden, en route with pack train upon the trail between the Yellowstone and East Fork Rivers.    ISBN 1 903090 00 8  Ordering Information See below for extract.

from Travelling Mercies:

 

CO             down in Denver among silver limpets, najas

                       fish around his shins
                                                       Crivelli’s
                                         Christopher          relieves us
 
 

We followed the blue road in the antique Rand McNally whithersoever
regardless of more recent constructions. True, the gate spanning the
road posted ADMITTANCE RESTRICTED, and more blithe than
obedient we gave it short pause. It only took Security a half mile
anyway to pull us over and turn us back, acknowledging nothing
of the blue road on our map.
Down the road at the Loaf&Jug the girl explains everything, “Martin-
Marietta? oh, they make missiles&stuff in there...”
We never saw over that hill.
 
 

                  The Kid’s double-action                                        Rye
                  $15. 1880 .41 Thunderer
 

 

white arms    red finery    hard arts    gone under glass
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        travelling mercies
                                        the Ute’s
                            blessing at Fort

                            Garland
 

 

dead on the lintel of the Cathedral
of Saint Francis at Santa Fe
a dove
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

hitcher in ditch sits unseeing head on
crossed knees vultures high wheeling             Clines Corners
 

Broadtail hummingbird sits knuckles             Baca / Capitans
fingertip    platerim radish tomato    tentguy
beak taps a fingernail    beak tip    gentle
long probe at lip of beerbottle    at open
eye    which manoeuvre I watch unflinching
tickles a nostril    darts around to left ear
too much    despite myself    I do
flinch and he dashes
 
 
 

cicadas shrill daylong     myriad
clickings in the piñons    at dusk
vast squadronic drone     come
morning, beetle tracks in all the dust
 
 
 

waking in the orange nylon puptent
:              waking inside a litebulb