Far Out Ring fancy mood ring The sky is a bowl

The sky is a bowl turned upside down

like the time we found the a silk pocket hidden deep in the lining of a thrift store coat

the soft roll of cloud quieting the birds

Stone Repair- whether it chipped or fell out

nailed the sheet to the wall

Far Out Ring fancy mood ring The sky is a bowlWe go to Marfa to see the sculptures, concrete giants, all right angles and smoothness, absolute, their straight lines throwing the wildness of the desert into high relief. Holding hands, rings twinned, we follow a little path, overgrown with bright gold flowering damianita, Texas ranger in full vivid bloom. We find a lake springing out of nowhere, an archipelago of islands, wild Texas longhorns and leggy waterbirds wading, little foamy waves lapping