Devine

My friend grew up
In Devine a small town
South of San Antonio under
A vast blue sky over yellow dusty
Plains now without antelope
And I am reminded of
Another remote road
In south Texas in the
Nueces River valley
Between Laredo
On the brown
Rio Grande
And Corpus Christi
On the Gulf of Mexico,
A land close to the old cattle
Range where in the mid
1800s the chief local
Bad man put up a
Rough sign
To order
Who read it
That this road
Is King Fisher’s,
Take another.