Bearable
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
three notes from a dove
making the desolate way
bearable again
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Peace
Evening descends on mountains near Ajo, Arizona.
Crow on the mountain,
must you shatter evening’s peace
with your wagging tongue?
Photo and haiku © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Enough
A late-summer sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Raucous crow, enough!
Disturb the peace no longer,
screeching at your mate!
Photo and haiku © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Bones
“Bones” of a long-dead saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Desiccated bones—
noisy crow on the mountain,
let them rest in peace!
Photo and haiku © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blue Monday: Rocket Ship
Mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
My rocket ship is blasting off—
Won’t you come with me?
We’ll sail a million miles or more
Through a starry sea,
Where deep within the Milky Way
Weird fish blink and gleam,
And fishers tell the strangest tales
As they wait and dream.
Photo and poem © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Look at the women
Look at the women
in their enormous jackets.
Some are writing
and some are drawing
on this crisp autumn morning.
They have stories to tell,
some short and some long,
in words or in charcoal.
You see them here
and elsewhere,
and think:
I will tell my story too.
Even if it falls flat,
it will be worth the effort.
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Light
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Light creeps inexorably across the wilderness.
Photo and text © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Waiting
Lockett Meadow Campground, Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, autumn 2016
deepening autumn—
grasses among gold aspens
await the first snow
Haiku © 2017 and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Meeting
Lockett Meadow Campground, Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, autumn 2016
deepening autumn—
meeting you on the mountain
under the great pines
Haiku © 2017 and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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The Fifty-Year Reunion
The fifty-year reunion
Was a time of deepest grief—
Some classmates couldn’t make it,
For they’d fallen like a leaf.
But others showed up eager
To shake hands and flash a smile
At classmates they had not seen
For more than quite a while.
Their talk was small and aimless,
And some people would not say
What was really on their minds—
Didn’t matter anyway,
For at the stroke of midnight
All the oldsters shuffled out,
Relieved the farce was over:
Nothing to write home about.
