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Back in New Mexico
David Cameron

I step on a goathead
tricorn devil lacerating
my heel injecting desert
sizzle and chile fire until
I hop hop hop hop
and fall on a cholla that
hugs me with outstretched
arms lighting me up like
tequila shots burning my eyes
with salty tears heaving
piñon sighs still high
from the way the mountains
pink like melon and now
I think I’m back.
Back in New New Mexico.

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David Cameron catches poems from scraps of conversations or dreams half-remembered. His works have been accepted in the NC Poetry Society’s Pinesong, Literary Heist, Rural Fiction Magazine, The Amethyst Review, Dirigible Ballooon, and The Friends Journal among others. After a career as a Presbyterian minister, he is now on loan to the trails of Western NC where he lives with his spouse and son.

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