Category Archives: Sky Watch Friday
Hanged
Sunrise on a playground, Southern Arizona
north, south, east, west
neck encompassed by a noose
the hanged man twirls
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Leaking
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
spring morning
bullet-riddled tin
leaking sky
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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.
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Ablaze
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Desert magician,
did you set the fence ablaze
with a cunning spell?
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Waiting
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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Morsel
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
chocolate door
dark morsel melting
at sunrise
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Transformation
Saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
how a waterfall
becomes an old saguaro
in the wilderness
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Whispering Water
Seasonal stream, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
whispering water—
weary desert monk sipping
from the sacred stream
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Notes of Gold
Wide-throated Monkeyflower (Mimulus brevipes) Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, SoCal
When the desert blooms,
even the shadows rejoice—
tiny notes of gold.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Koi
The koi pool at Govinda’s, Tucson, Arizona
When my teacher breathes,
golden schools of koi appear
in the wilderness.
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