First trail ride in Lubbock

Some photos from my first trail ride in Lubbock.

These trails are located on the east side of town, about 4 miles from my house:


The trails feature loose rock and sand, and some short, steep climbs. And twisty spots!











There is a sketchy pump track and some jumps.




On the way home. Skool's out for summer.




By some warehouses...




Under a highway...








And over a train yard. (I scared a woman on this bridge who said she didn't hear me because she was absorbed in singing and praying to the lord.)

Begoña Díez Sanz: "Combray"

[Original here]

I raised to my lips a spoonful of tea in which [ ]

How can I fix the extent

of love's most carnal expression,

of the beauty of bitmaps on my back

as I arch over your most bucolic, sonorous climax.

Each tile in your kitchen

was somehow illusory

[architectural fantasy of naked bodies on the kitchen table]

from the perspective of foam, everything was submersible

I made myself explicit in body and implicit as a function

of that whole cosmogony you used to penetrate me:

without wings, shields, or apples (...)

and even so, we were archetypes.

If Proust had seen us fucking,

your tongue would have lived on 

as the paradigm case of memory.

               An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, but individual, detached, with no suggestion of its origin [ ]