Nay, nay, we are but crucified, and though
The bloody sweat falls from our brows like rain
Loosen the nails - we shall come down I know,
Staunch the red wounds - we shall be whole again,
No need have we of hyssop-laden rod,
That which is purely human, that is godlike, that is God.
Living in a wide landscape are the flowers β Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying β the shell and the hawk every hour are slaying men and jerboas, slaying
the mind: but the body can fill the hungry flowers and the dogs who cry words at nights, the most hostile things of all. But that is not news. Each time the night discards
draperies on the eyes and leaves the mind awake I look each side of the door of sleep for the little coin it will take to buy the secret I shall not keep.
I see men as trees suffering or confound the detail and the horizon. Lay the coin on my tongue and I will sing of what the others never set eyes on.
— Keith DouglasΒ
(“Succinct but mysterious, Desert Flowers belongs to a liminal state between sleeping and waking, night and day. It seems to open and close: first, to look outwards at the “wide landscape” and then to turn to the unconscious desires where poetry β even the starkest war poetry β is generated. There’s a convalescent quality of memories being reviewed in quiet darkness, and energies gathered.” Keith Douglas was considered the most talented – and overlooked – poet of the Second World War.)
White Winged Dove At Patio Feeder — Image by kenne
Well I hear you in the morning And I hear you at nightfall Sometimes to be near you Is to be unable to feel you, my love I’m a few years older than you (I’m a few years older than you) my love
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she’s singing Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she’s singing Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh
Arizona wild cottonΒ (Gossypium thurberi) is a deciduous shrub with a lovely fall color. Also called desert cotton and Mt. Lemmon cotton, this shrub can grow up to 10 feet tall by 4 feet wide. It has beautiful creamy white summer flowers, and its palate leaves turn yellow and red in the fall before they fall off, and the plant goes dormant.