for reasons that
dont exactly make sense
we decided to go
straight to the Taos Pueblo
thinking something mysterious
was waiting there for us
to answer our questions about
Kit Carson
we were
immediately drawn to
the old San Geronimo Church at the Pueblo
which was mostly destroyed in the
Spanish Revolt of 1680...
the graves now stand inside
where the church used to be
so what can you say?
the last two days had been filled with
war and genocide
death and decay
famine and fatigue
conflicts between
the whites
the hispanics
and the native americans....
we needed a drink
the adobe bar
so off we went
to the Adobe Bar at Doc Martins
the same bar that
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda
and countless other artist had gone to
while staying in Taos......
but even though the whiskey was good
and the burger was red
we still had no clues about
Kit Carson
the wild eyed sage of the adobe bar in taos
that is
until we were leaving
and a crzy eyed grizzled old man
came straight up to me and sayd
go to Cebolla Mesa
the scratchr lady is there
she will tale you all u need to know
just go..........
new mexico portrait
sould
30 bye 50 moore less
skin walkers are witchs
from navajo myth
that crawls around at nite
on all fours with pallid white faces & red eyes
covered in animal fur
chanting prayers backward to bring out the evil spirits
as thay search out dead bodys
for skin thay can remove to ground up into
"corpse powder"
which thay blow into peoples face
to give them ghost sickness
midnite at cebolla mesa
foto by dreamr
so as we drove out to cebolla mesa
at midnite
looking for the scratchr lady
that the fella at teh adobe bar describd
we didnt really care
what name u put on
what we saw on the road
late that nite
all we knew was
we had ignored the omen
of those dead animals
and now something very strange
was in our path 5 miles out on a dirt road
in the middle of the nite
on cebolla mesa