5885. NEW TEXTURES

NEW TEXTURES

The wall is of a carbine-space, something spackled

and mounted with guns in  a case. Rifle-rack, a truly

rural decoration, and those men know their means 

and ways. 'This one is for gophers and squirrels, this 

I use for deer, and that once, that's a bear rifle really;

Hell 'round here, along these upper Delaware ridges,

you really just never know. He means the river, not

that state. That mix-up used to always tease me in

the brain, until I learned the river. The Delaware is

a fulsome thing  -  running along, separeting places, 

running high and sometimes nasty flooding. A picture

of a miniature 'Life On the Mississippi', just like a

Mark Twain epic, so sweet. I love the mud of all

this crud, packed tight along my feet.