Category Archives: Friday’s Fences

Flaming Out

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Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona
 


after the battles
a tattered star flaming out
ashes to ashes

 
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Neglected

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Clifton, Arizona
 


Neglected garden—
peering through the sagging gate
an old woman weeps.

 

Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Ablaze

Desert fence photo SonoranMay2013126a_zpsa7694ae3.jpg
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


Desert magician,
did you set the fence ablaze
with a cunning spell?

 
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Waiting

Farmer's field photo SonoranApril20131698a_zps539d302c.jpg
Soon-to-be-irrigated cropland, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


Waiting for the plow,
a fallow field gathers strength
for nourishing seed.

 
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Chapel

Shelter Valley, Calif. photo AnzaBoApril2013014a_zps2c5679fd.jpg
Penstemon centranthifolius, Shelter Valley, San Diego County, California
 


Penstemon chapel—
resting place for weary ones
on the desert way.

 

Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Wedding

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California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) Southern California
 


On their wedding day,
Earth, clutching golden blossoms,
says her vows to Sky.

 
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Sundown Fence

Sundown fence photo SonoranMar20134799a_zpsc4d4fe54.jpg
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


Someone tell the barbs
not to scar the tender sky—
each star needs a home.

 

Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Crumpled

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Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


In a barren land
a castle fence is crumpled—
will God save the king?

 
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Drumming

Sunset on the fenceline photo NorAzJuly2012537a_zps8e1abcb5.jpg
Northern Arizona
 


What is this music—
someone drumming down the sun,
making fences dance?

 
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Freefall

Sunset fence photo SonoranJan20132087a_zpsdd380225.jpg
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


With my walking stick
I whack evening’s deadly fence—
seven stars fall free.

 

Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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