Show DESERT INCITES TO POETRY writer discover discovers beauty of a sort in desolation I 1 know kno a place that Is I 1 44 not wholly a desert yet it la is neither ther nor fertile land aye says verner Z reed in the augut august atlantic it 14 1 what might be b termed a semi lewt anil and it has a mooil mood that ie Is different from that of other deserts it seems a philosophic well ell contented sort of place that haa bat much knowler know led much ami and that extracts a wise en Jor foment nent from the days 1 that piss pass over it it Is nearly related to a tall peak and Is akin to a nearby range ot ut mountain mountains and anti ta to the air and anti the eky sky I 1 hoera grow upon this denit desert sunflowers and berg amot and bluebelle and mariposa Marl Nta posa lalle and in anany a n T otter tt er shaggy little steps that bear blue anti an yellow and white and blossoms it knowe knows sagebrush too a and I 1 yucca and various pigmy cacti it Is field an I 1 farm and native land for many vell established ancient an I 1 wine wise nations of prairie aogi and it ie is the world and anti the fullness thereof for mands of republics of ante ants this pettit desert stretches away from the mount mountains tins and runs its way may in billows towards the fitt N e know it to farms and town and nd work ork und find trouble and that its next of kin the ROCS goes en to the great rivers whose banks are lined with the covers of chattels but we me like to think that as a desert it stretches away oo 00 bond ond the horizon and passes un tin changed on to infinity and across it la Is the road to eternity and endless growth of soul and joy of et rt and anti consummation |