Category: Thoughts

Trinity site with the tower completely blown away after the blast

This is a picture taken at ground zero at the Trinity site. A Second Dawn’s setting is the Socorro area the summer of the Trinity blast. The first atomic bomb was ignited here that July. This site is just about 18 miles as the crow flies from my grandfather’s farm in Louis Lopez and less […]

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A poet meets his audience

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Fortitude

Perseverance. To have the fortitude of this slight flower. A dandelion seed lands in a sterile sidewalk crack. It bides its time until enough moisture and nutrients inspire it to send down a slight anchoring root which it garnishes with a few stubby, sturdy leaves. One has to look close. It doesn’t shoot skyward but […]

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