
Tombstone Stagecoach Driver — Image by kenne
A stagecoach driver
Waiting outside Big Nose Kate’s
Most tourists walk by.
— kenne

Tombstone Stagecoach Driver — Image by kenne
A stagecoach driver
Waiting outside Big Nose Kate’s
Most tourists walk by.
— kenne
Posted May 27, 2021 by kenneturner in Black & White Photography, Information, Poetry
Tagged with B & W Photography, Big Nose Kate's Saloon, Haiku, Stagecoach Driver, Tombstone Arizona
Stagecoach Driver — Image by kenne
Westward the wagon jolted
along the ruts and trails,
along the interminable course of empire,
while the sun took a long time going down in the fields.
The earth was slow and hard
and there was nothing to see but land:
it was not a country at all
but the sketch of a country,
the material out of which countries are made.
— from “Nebraska, 1883,” by Edward Hirsch
The dust of travel still clings to his body,
and particles of sunlight fade on his skin.
What has happened to the eternal presences?
— from “The Renunciation of Poetry,” by Edward Hirsch
Posted May 16, 2014 by kenneturner in Art, Books, Capturing the Moment, Information, Life, Photography
Tagged with Arizona, Black Bart, D800, Edward Hirsch, Nebraska 1883, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona, Stagecoach Driver, The Renunciation of Poetry, Tombstone Arizona