Ocotillo Poems - Poems about Ocotillo

... Miles and miles of nothing, sparsely vegetated with Joshua trees, desert wildflowers, ocotillo cactus. Not much to look at, but plenty of it to see.......

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...saguaros guardians of the sonora a battalion wafting in one hundred degree heat standing sentry on granite slopes vertical green etches in carmel cliffs literally--litter the foothills r......

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...There's nothing "just" about August --not in Southern AZ. Monsoon busts--no more dust. Desert turns into a sea of green. Happy hour's afternoon showers. Bare ocotillo grow waxy leaves. Canyon w......

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...A sunbaked pile of dead sticks in the ground I’m a divine oversight, it would seem Hundreds of long spines poke out all around Yet inside resides a colorful dream I’m a divine oversight, it wou......

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...The debate between free will and fate has taken a hard right turn to neuroscience, Brodmann area 4 the primary motor cortex of the brain located in the posterior frontal lobe (the one cut out of t......

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...Appointment to have organ removed by robot-assisted surgeon. Air-conditioned, no mosquitoes in the OR. When you arrive You'll remove all your clothes. Naked before the ladies, nurses Who have seen......

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...Utah cringes as hacked Ocotillo turn carnivorous, spitting psychoactive pollen into the atmosphere, dusting entire subdivisions. The victims wander, searching eagerly for where sunlight is stro......

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...Misshapen limbs of the Palo Verde trees add an artistic touch to the landscape. While Honeysuckle twine about the old rail fence and the spiny Ocotillo flash scarlet plumes. Mesquite trees, old......

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...Long, tall and skinny, thorns all the way around, not a leaf one If you should camp at night on the desert floor, circle it with The Devil's Rope A rattle snake will not craw......

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...Desert display as Saguaro's spiny arms raise to the darkening blue sky. Days of heat waves chase Ocotillo flower buds drooping slowly in the mauve air very still ... and then, with the distant......

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