Category Archives: wilderness
Leading
Ocotillo blossoms, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
on a level path
ten thousand crimson blossoms
leading to the hills
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Following
Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
following footsteps
erased by wilderness streams—
way of the Spirit
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Pilgrim Way
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
in a trackless waste
stopping for a while to pray
way of the pilgrim
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Stains
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
wilderness morning
sunlight the color of tea
staining the sand
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Embracing
Dead Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
one tattered willow
embracing the wilderness—
crow tries to explain
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Singing
“I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman wrote, “the varied carols I hear.”
I too hear singing, but instead of coming from throats of carpenters, masons or boatmen, it comes from sky and star and stone. It comes from weeds and wind and wild things. It comes from crow and cricket and cottonwood. It is the singing of the Sonoran Desert, and like the Siren songs that seduced Odysseus and his companions, I cannot ignore it.
I hear it as I help a student proofread her essay. I hear it while I confer with a parent about his son’s behavior. I hear it while I am grading papers.
At day’s end, I slip into comfortable clothing and walk into the nearby wilderness. The stones and weeds and dust greet me with rejoicing. They knew I would come.
three crickets chirping
stones conferring with the wind
my house is too small
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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stones conferring with the wind
my house is too small
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blooming
Rare September blossoms, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
Why are you grieving?
The time of blooming has come,
if but for one hour.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Brutalized
Teddy Bear Cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
prostrate and panting
cholla shadows brutalized
by the broiling sun
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Storytellers
Honeybee on Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina) blossom, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
how the worker bees
share nectar-blossom stories
with the drones back home
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Snagged
Palo verde tree seed pods, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
kites by the thousand
snagged in palo verde trees
small boys never learn
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