
go site Desert Poppies © 2013 Bo Mackison
go Notice how present a flower is, how surrendered to life. ~ Eckhart Tolle
https://luckydubz.com/artists/marise/ It is a beautiful place, the desert.
https://www.psychiccowgirl.com/workshops/ I never realized its fullness of life, its diversity
until daily I walked its paths,
treading on mountain peaks lightly frosted in mid winter
climbing in its washes torn asunder by summer’s flash floods.
https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?page_id=52 Walking its rocky trails, aware of each footfall,
threading my way through a maze of deep crevices in the earth.
Reaching towards a saguaro to steady my bearings
only to pull back in mild alarm
imagining my hand pierced with the thorns of a saguaro.
Standing in its washes in spring, yes the desert has its seasons,
admiring the waving yellow poppies, their throats flushed with red,
their roots grounded in a chaos of rock and grit,
their silken petals a delicate offering amidst so much ruggedness.
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She repeatedly discovers inspiration in the desert. https://ottawaphotographer.com/elope-ottawa/



