Posts Tagged ‘The Desert’
Lost in the snow in Juarez
When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez And it’s Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don’t pull you through Dylan It wasn’t raining, and Easter is 2 months away, but Bob’s lines melodiously swirled in my head as I tried to capture the snow falling over our city. It was cold [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Fatally Comfortable
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe. -Irresistible Revolution In my research to find statistics for what is really going on here in this bloody city, the most dangerous city in Mexico which [...]
February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: The Desert in Color
The concrete-gray washes over me like a tidal wave of rubble, with 100 million plastic bags and a few hundred thousand worn out tires embedded in its curling face. Even with the dusty trashy mess, our neighborhood has me enamored. Everyone keeps warning us about the sinister dust storms that roll across the desert in March and April, [...]
January 20th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
The Desert Weight
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human– looks out of the heart burning with purity– for [...]
February 13th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey