Desert Wind
Language: English
The clouds cling
to the muscular back of the wind
til hooked on the peaks
of the Santa Rosas they
lie wedged in trembling refuge.
A wild gourd vine,
like a casket spray on the dry wash,
extravagantly blooms and bears
in nonchalance
at the passing of its season.
Why ride like clouds when
I can push the wind away
with pinyon posture, and hear it
gallop down the wash to meet
the moaning of its burying place
and the wild gourd blooming?
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren
[Guest Editor] , Mark Abel
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
Line count: 16
Word count: 83