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Haunted


Owls often roost by day in this tangled palo verde tree in Yuma County, Arizona.
 


After Thanksgiving,
I visit places haunted
by the desert owls.

 
 
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Under the Tree


Shadows play under an old palo verde tree in the Sonoran Desert of Yuma County, Arizona.
 
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Blue Monday: Partly Cloudy Sky

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An old palo verde tree towers over a wash in Yuma County, Arizona.
 
 


 
 
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Grand Old Tree

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Palo verde tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
 
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Tangled

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The tangled branches of a palo verde tree, greet visitors to the Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
 
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Cooing

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Palo verde tree in bloom at Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
 


among the blossoms
a hidden dove starts cooing—
distant mountains quake

 
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Shade

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Palo verde tree, Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona
 
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Until

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Giant palo verde tree in bloom, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


How many blossoms,
how many starlit evenings
until the world ends?

 
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Rising

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Dawn lights up a palo verde tree in the Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
 


desert heat rising—
a faraway mountain tugs
at the blackbird’s wings

 
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Matins

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Palo verde tree just before sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


wilderness matins—
a new song spills from your beak,
little desert dove

 
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