“Caught In The Tide” (Katie Turner Bailey at Del Mar Beach) — Image by Holly, Originally poster on Facebook
Kate caught in the tide
Dress and phone are high and dry,
Friend snaps a picture.
— kenne
“Caught In The Tide” (Katie Turner Bailey at Del Mar Beach) — Image by Holly, Originally poster on Facebook
— kenne
Posted August 6, 2014 by kenneturner in Art, Capturing the Moment, Family, Life, Photography
Tagged with beach, Del Mar Beach, Holly, Kate, Katie Turner Bailey, Ocean, san diego california, Tide
Creosote Bushes… Desert Holly
Weeks…
months pass
in a haze.
It feels like
desert shack
summer.
A woman is on a gold overstuffed chair,
knees drawn up to small breasts,
a brief blue cotton dress
at her narrow hips,
no panties,
long ebony hair
tangled wild.
The cement
floor
has a brittle
membrane
of Linoleum.
Exile
is not
a
vacation.
There are mortal facts
in the bloodstream,
which is
no excuse.
Money grins.
Pink ribbons
travel far.
It is raining
outside
an empty
room.
There will
be
flash floods,
snapped off
lives.
Out on the highway,
truck air horns
argue
with one another
like bible camp
children.
Now the man is alone
and the woman
is in a $69
Kingman
motel.
Goodbye
is an owl
at twilight…
light pole
perched.
–Red Shuttleworth
Posted March 9, 2013 by kenneturner in Art, Capturing the Moment, Information, Nature, Photography, Poetry
Tagged with Desert, Desert Holly, Flora and Fauna, Holly, Nature, Outdoors, Painting, Red Shuttleworth, Sonoran Desert

