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- What does the desert look like? Three fish in a hot tub?
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- When you look at it from a distance, maybe it’s hard to see.
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- The big rocks are hiding things.
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- Other apparati blend into the hillsides.
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- I remember the cactus somewhat distinctly.
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- And that hike we did to the fan palm oasis.
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- The whole family was there.
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- But what does the desert really look like?
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- Is it a box of Band-Aids up the trail from where they fenced in the wash?
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- Three men in designer jeans walking by a man in a wheelchair and a giant pig?
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- How can we touch the desert from this far away?
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- I keep thinking about the strange little gourds.
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- All the usual desert things were there.
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- Some of them were photographed.
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- But I just keep wondering about the gourds.
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- Are they remnants of crops grown by the claim jumper who lived here long ago?
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- I was out there for a week. I’ve been back for two days.
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- Now all I have is this pile of evidence and
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- the memory of gourds and trees and a dirt road. I can’ wait to go back.
I hate it when people touch my stereo! Where is this enchanted place where Roadrunners eat hamburgers and where a man needs a roll of duct tape just to listen to his favorite daily AM talk show? I swear I have been down that same side road in the last scene, but they all look very similar in that part of the state.
Hey JW – Stereo was in Palm Springs, roadrunner in Borrego Springs, and the road is in Joshua Tree. Fun trip!