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Glad to be back in the desert
After all the wasted years;
The javelinas of the 1950s
Are gone now of course
But new ones have arrived
and they still need water only
A few times during the year;
The big saguaro cacti can be
Two hundred years old and
When a beautiful young king snake
Went looking for a place to hide
I knew exactly how it felt although
I'm not quite eighty yet. Look!
There's a female tarantula.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Mitch ought to be the Arizona State Poet!
Posted by: David Schloss | April 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM