Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Don Blanding




Love the work of artist/poet Don Blanding. His poem below:
Joshua Trees
Sentries by day with bayonets on guard,
Prophets by night in attitudes of prayer;
But when the dusk spreads veils across the hard
Sharp outlines of the land they hear an air,
Piped on a Pan-ic flute, unseen and far,
An echo from and older, gayer land;
They catch the winking of an elfin star
And dance a quaint arthritic saraband.
*note: one of the D.B. books I scanned these prints from was originally priced a mere $2.50!

2 comments:

  1. Oh can we make a pillow out of the Joshua Tree one? that's ah-mazing

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