campfires, the smell of woodfire and pinon, cedar smoke, the sound of the record turning over, birds, abandoned carnivals at night, "glow in the dark", sandalwood temple incense, entwined things, landscape that unspools out the window of the train, country dark,"sunlight, turfsmoke, seagulls, boatslip, diesel"...(s. heaney)
HAWK, FALCON, WOLF! Our shells clacked on the plates./My tongue was a filling estuary,/my palate hung with starlight:/As I tasted the salty Pleiades/Orion dipped his foot into the water. (seamus heaney)
my spirit guides emmylou harris and willie nelson 'tougher than leather,' 'spirit,' 'phases and stages,' townes van zandt, blonde redhead, the legend of jesse james soundtrack (levon helm, cash, harris), pee wee king and redd stewart, gram gram gram, don williams, lefty frizell, stars of the grand ole opry, the country gentlemen, MERLE, waylon jennings, slim whitman, george jones, seldom scene, byrds, 'sweetheart of the rodeo,' neil and crazy horse, buffalo springfield, country joe mcdonald, folk songs of the frontier, roy orbison, wagons west 'pioneers,' bob wills and the texas playboys.........
errol morris 'vernon, florida,' wong kar-wai, wim wenders 'tokyo-ga,' babette's feast, 'cyclo,' david lynch
old music documentaries.....nature shows.
JAMES SALTER 'light years,' nabokov 'ada,' saul bellow, gretel ehrlich 'solace of open spaces,' annie dillard 'pilgrim at tinker creek,' birds of northern new mexico, sam shephard, colette 'the vagabond,' 'earthly paradise,'r. queneau, essential rumi, 'the way to rainy mountain' by n. scott momaday, paul bowles 'let it come down,'an invisible spectator,' richard brautigan, taos pueblo and taos tales by elsie parsons, the desert reader, legends of the american desert, cormac mccarthy 'the orchard keeper', isabelle eberhardt, freya stark, le petit prince.....
willie nelson, the high desert, my grandpa frank turning up the record just a little more, j.haven miller, alvin miller telling me a story about little debbie snack cakes, greenpoint cold, my fifth grade fiddle teacher named doc erickson, my dear friends, my favorite record shop where you hunt for music by conductor, or arranger, and the owner who likes CAKE.