Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar

Dos Gatos Press has just published a new anthology: Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar. It includes a poem of mine entitled Vanishing Over The Horizon. Here's a link to the website, so you can peruse other books as well as links to various author websites published in the book: http://www.dosgatospress.org/store.html  Just scroll down to the second book listed.

Here's my poem that was selected for inclusion:

Vanishing Over The Horizon

 

I believe in Texas               as a state of mind    

                                   

the wide deserts                                    room for elbows

                       

and other desires—

 

cowboys

 

lonely and rambunctious             roping steer

                                               

repairing fences

 

            then galloping wild

 

                               over

 

                                    every             post.

 

Kicking up heels                 the tap of boots

 

                              a mantra

 

there is space in my life for the unexpected to occur.

 

I close the magazine

 

    saddle up my inner horse

 

            and ride into the orange sun

 

                   vanishing

 

                          over the horizon

 

                                    like a buffalo

 

                                           into the glimmering fields.