Category Archives: Southern Arizona
Flaming Out
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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Imprinted
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
imprinted
on the desert sands
her night tracks
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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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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Slow Death
Old mowing machine, Clifton, Arizona
slow death by rusting
neglected mowing machine
after the harvest
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Neglected
Clifton, Arizona
Neglected garden—
peering through the sagging gate
an old woman weeps.
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Leaking
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
spring morning
bullet-riddled tin
leaking sky
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Justice
Sheep skull, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
in a sun-seared land
eye for eye and tooth for tooth
primitive justice
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Prayers
Clifton, Arizona
in the hermit’s cave
fragrant sandalwood incense
smoldering prayers
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Strength
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Yuma, Arizona
a child’s strength
tests a mother’s love
and mercy
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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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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