Sundown Explains Nothing

In his new and selected, Jim Barnes crafts bliss from the urgent and allusive with an enigmatic voice that is often mysterious.A CHOCTAW CHIEF HELPS PLAN         A FESTIVAL IN MEMORY OF         PUSHMATAHA'S BIRTHDAYWe know he liked chock beer and watermelonand raced sleek ponies in the dead of night.We'll give him that. We'll have to open upthe valley to whites and those Chickasaws,or it's sure no go. But we'll keep it pure. . . A lot depends on image. Use your masks.Don't wear boots. Speak the language if you can. . .