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Haiku My Heart, Hosting for Rebecca: Healing
A wounded cactus begins to heal in a Phoenix, Arizona backyard.
To all wounded things
blackbird sings a healing song—
new growth soon appears.
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Macro Monday 2: New Growth
New growth on an old cactus in Phoenix, Arizona.
Photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Cow’s Tongue
Lengua de Vaca (Cow’s Tongue) cactus, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blue Monday: Cactus Woman
Detail from a wall of mosaics, Ajo, Arizona
Cactus Woman has nothing to lose
By walking for weeks without wearing shoes.
She’s toughened her feet on thorns and stones,
And carries the wilderness in her bones.
Her eyes are afire, her heart’s ablaze;
She loves the desert’s unsociable ways.
Cactus Woman is someone, they say,
Who’ll live in the wilderness, come what may.
Poem © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Passing
Barrel cactus blossoms, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
As December ends,
even the cactus blossoms
lament its passing.
Haiku © 2015 and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Sniffing
Saguaro cactus at dawn, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
sniffing the silence
around an old saguaro
searching for a song
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Silence”
Cactus
Discarded domestic cactus, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
From Machu Picchu
to the Sonoran Desert—
cactus knows the way.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Carpe Diem: “Machu Picchu”
More I Heart Macro at Shine the Divine
Twins
Hedgehog Cactus, Echinocereus engelmannii, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
cactus blossom twins
waiting for the welcome drone
of pollinators
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday 2
More SkyWatch Friday
More Ein Stück Himmel #66
More The April Heights 2013: “Drone”
More Carpe Diem: “Gemini: The Twins”
