Category Archives: Recuerda Mi Corazon
Comfort
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Yuma, Arizona
In Lady Mary
downtrodden souls find comfort—
devils gnash their teeth.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Balanced
Sunflower in an irrigated field, Southern Arizona
Sometimes paradise
is a sunflower balanced
between earth and sky.
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Hanged
Sunrise on a playground, Southern Arizona
north, south, east, west
neck encompassed by a noose
the hanged man twirls
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Neglected
Clifton, Arizona
Neglected garden—
peering through the sagging gate
an old woman weeps.
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Wilderness Now
“It is hard to say good-bye to beloved flesh,” Madeleine L’Engle writes in Two-Part-Invention. It is also hard to say good-bye to beloved places, but the Sonoran Desert and I will soon part company. The tiny public school, where I have taught since last August, is no longer able to retain all the teachers currently on staff. Because I was one of the last to be hired, I am among the first to be let go. There will be no last-minute reprieve. As I prepare to leave this seared and desolate land I have come to love, I find myself humming a plaintive tune, first sung many thousands of years ago by a disconsolate group of displaced persons: “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” (Psalm 137:4).
suddenly a stream
refreshing weary pilgrims
in the wilderness
The future is uncertain. The wilderness is now.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Seven Stories
~~ 1 ~~
ravenous kisses
his fumbling with her buttons
their first love story
~~ 2 ~~
Whoever she is,
she knows how to weave stories
he cannot take off.
~~ 3 ~~
how the guitarist
tells stories with his fingers
skipping on the strings
~~ 4 ~~
rusted wheelbarrow
white chickens dripping with rain
sad barnyard story
~~ 5 ~~
For a good journey,
she stitched a bag of stories
to tell round the fire.
~~ 6 ~~
granite grave marker
date of birth and date of death
story etched in stone
~~ 7 ~~
their old love letters
telling stories about them
to her grandchildren
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Empress of Heaven
In the cathedral, Puebla, México
Empress of heaven,
do you hear our stammerings
as we cry to you?
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Whirling Along
~~ 1 ~~
thunderous applause
rolling across the meadow
crickets know the score
~~ 2 ~~
spit and dirt
Jesus’ home-grown cure
for blindness
~~ 3 ~~
messages from God
sent to my Gmail account
forgot the password
~~ 4 ~~
count the ways
you love me—more than
one I hope
~~ 5 ~~
soup du jour
tomato lovers
shedding tears
~~ 6 ~~
Thousand or seven—
which number is the better
to track tragedies?
~~ 7 ~~
red planet
hurtling through the sky
while I sleep
~~ 8 ~~
dish of honeyed pears
gracing the kitchen table
brandy in a glass
~~ 9 ~~
Front Street empty
until the next shootout
in Dodge City
~~ 10 ~~
dressing the pheasant
for the Thanksgiving table
dreaming of turkey
~~ 11 ~~
Charm the holy One
into telling you only
what you want to hear.
~~ 12 ~~
pulsing with desire
for a romp in the backseat
when she backhands him
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Scattered
Trailing Milkweed (Sarcostemma hirtellum), Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Who scattered these stars
across wilderness washes
while owls were singing?
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Grace
Backyard shrine, Los Algodones, Baja California, México
pure honey of grace
in the daily quietude
of a backyard shrine
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