#santa fe
Poem by Pietje Kobus
Not despite, you say,because
You’ve been looking in the bathroom mirror
of our Santa Fe adobe house, beneath stained vigas
wearing your orange sports bra
and half-buckled blue jeans
a black-and-white plaid shirt in one hand—for horseback-riding
Was it five summers ago when
I saw you at Seattle’s Cyclops,
wearing a sleeveless golf shirt?
I kept staring at your shoulders,
tan and muscular, diagonal scars
I felt too timid asking about
Aren’t you worried about the age difference?
My mom says, tells her Christian friends
I was looking for a replacement. No,
my fear is dying alone, my means exhausted, becoming
the people I see as I drive along Cerrillos
pushing carts with tattered blankets and frayed satchels
I’m proud to be an old lady, you say,
love me because of my wrinkles
Turning around, my right index finger traces
the lines in your face, grazes
your flat stomach with my left hand,
Because, I whisper, I love you because
Pietje Kobus is an MFA student at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. She writes creative non-fiction and poetry, mostly about the long-lasting damage of harmful messages received during childhood. When she is not writing you can find her in Santa Fe, NM playing with her dogs or taking pictures along a trail. Follow here on Instagram @Pietjewrites, on Twitter @Pietje_Pykje, or on her website http://www.pietjekobus.com.
Loretto Academy, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Robert H. Martin
Date: ca. 1946 -1952
Negative Number: HP.2005.22.023
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Aspen trees near Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst
Date: 1925 - 1945?
Negative Number: 069204
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Railroad depot, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Jesse Nusbaum
Date: 1912?
Negative Number: 066658
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Adobe buildings on Ortiz Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Wesley Bradfield
Date: 1920?
Negative Number: 040954
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Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Jesse Nusbaum
Date: 1911
Negative Number: 061537
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Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: H.H. Dorman
Date: 1917 - 1920?
Negative Number: 006726
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Artist Abel Sanchez (Oqwa Pi) of San Ildefonso Pueblo in front of Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Date: ca. 1925-1945?
Negative Number: 047582
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Southwest corner, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Christian G. Kaadt
Date: 1890 - 1903?
Negative Number: 006783
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Bataan veterans display American flags at the National Cemetery for Memorial Day, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Sydney Brink
Date: 1988
Negative Number: HP.2014.14.899
The Santa Fe New Mexican Collection
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“In Search of America” (and Santa Fe) – excerpt from a new book by Robert Wolf
Among its many virtues Santa Fe has always been a refuge for dreamers, eccentrics and artists. Some of these magnificent souls bring with them an unmistakable effervescence, a radiant and slightly skewed take on the world that reminds us of what a life of complete freedom, with both its rewards and its costs, looks like. If there were a poster child for Santa Fe artistic eccentricity it would…
Janet Lippincott: A 70-Year Retrospective
Among the personal artifacts that will appear in our upcoming retrospective for Janet Lippincott (1918-2007), there’s a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings. The folio of yellowed papers chronicles a tipping point in the New Mexico artist’s career—and the many wonders that came after—but it’s not the whole story. For the first half of Lippincott’s life, success was obscured behind…
Santa Fe Train 116, the northbound Dallas Section of the Texas Chief, arrives at White Rock Station on June 24, 1968.
Due at 12:35 pm, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe’s Train No. 116 was 25 minutes out of Dallas Union Station. The 116 provided a connection with Train 16, the Texas Chief, at Gainesville, Texas. The Texas Chief ran from Galveston via Houston and Fort Worth to Chicago.
The date was Saturday, June 29, 1968, and Train 116 would be discontinued just 20 days later.
Photo by Glen Brewer.
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Everyone there was once again another shooting at a high school here, particularly in Santa Fe, Texas. Sources say there’s at least 8 people who were killed and an officer wounded. The “shooter” (terrorist) is in custody. There were also reports of explosives. There will be more updates soon..
But yes no gun laws right? I live in this fucking state and there have been so many shootings here already. Do you know how terrifying that is? And yet people have the nerve to say “don’t take away our guns?” What about the children? The measures they’ll have to go through to right now is sad. I just, can’t
