Friday, November 15, 2019

jerome arizona circa 1980


our paths may have crossed
about the time the art galleries found a home
on main street
long after the copper mine wars
now metal desert
a dustbin portal from the wobblies 1917 strike
& deportation from the land of the 'free'

i don't know if utah phillips ever wrote
a song about it
but he might have

and long before that
the songs of the hohokam
now sculpted into cold rock
transitioned into old frame houses of living color
     oil paint on canvas
frame makers and fabric artists
i can see a singer/songwriter
in a vintage studio
& tourists climbing those hills
carrying their own crosses

and yes there's always love
     kate wolf
heartbeats     hands & a voice
caught just in time
when the verde valley
sings

--- e b bortz

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