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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCOTILLO, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART
First Line: Many-tentacled / groping toward the sun
Last Line: That blessed and cheated them.
Subject(s): Ocotillo (shrub)
First Line: Many-tentacled / groping toward the sun
Last Line: That blessed and cheated them.
Subject(s): Ocotillo (shrub)
Many-tentacled,
Groping toward the sun,
Spring-tipped with scarlet ...
Jets of flame ... flickering
Against smouldering gray
Smoke-bush...
Leaping points of fire
On white-hot
Sky silver...
Earth-born,
Nurtured by sun and rain,
Long leaning wands of gypsy winds
That roam the broad clean silent places...
The bleeding flowers
Of the ocotillo,
These are the dear lost dreams
Of all dead losers
Who died loving the desert,
That blessed and cheated them.
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