Poetry, Art & Conversations by T Newfields

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CONTENTS Desert Fireworks Sun Worship Kachina Chants Fossil Song Canyon at Night Desert Fire The Fire Within Sand Sand Tracks Syzygy Grains of Sand Desert Eye Desert Meteor Jubilee Sacred Feathers Desert Dream Sand Whispers Sky Song Desert Bloom Sunset Shades Old Peyote Desert Chant Ancient Fires Desert Mandala Where Feathers Meet The Threads That Link Us Earth and Sand Future Landscape?

During part of my boyhood I lived in the southwestern USA. Even though I was in an air-conditioned suburb of Phoenix, Arizona I was also keenly aware that the green mirage our technology had created through was an illusion. When walking past the irrigated outskirts of cities such as Tempe, Mesa, and Sedona I sensed that desert landscapes were far older than human civilization. I also came to believe that the desert would outlast human life as we know it. This is a series of speculations about the desert, our place in it, and the dance of other life forms which are not human.