We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. ~ Thomas Merton
While searching my blog for information on my Desert Wisdom Cards, I came across a poem I wrote about a year ago. It was called A Still Life in the Desert. I read it and thought how differently I would write the same poem today. How little things have changed in my world, gradually adding up to bigger changes, to living life in a direction I could not have imagined a year ago.
Different focuses, different goals, even different ways of seeing the same thing. And so I did a re-write. Here is the second iteration of this desert poem.
A Desert Portrait in Still Life
I am…
intertwined cactus spines
complex protective patterns
mysterious yet beautiful.
I am…
a pulled back curtain
a crazy quilt, fantastically embroidered
an unlocked trunk.
I am…
a cloud of red dust
tumbleweed dancing
a desert basin, easy on the wanderer’s eye.
I am…
a beloved assemblage of photographs
a deck of desert wisdom cards
poetry scribbled on scraps of paper.
I am…
idea incubator
questions and work-arounds
prayers of gratitude.
I am…
pulp, photographs, a hawk milagro
inked letter press
the alphabet in my hand.

















