2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
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Desert Kingdom<br />
(after the photograph by Steven Hays)<br />
by Joseph Hutchison<br />
Bisti Wilderness, New Mexico<br />
What are these battered beasts<br />
from a time before words Heaved<br />
up out of the desert’s bleached<br />
grit, they point blunted faces<br />
into a wind the camera’s put<br />
a stop to. Frozen in place, how<br />
can they be so moving It must be<br />
that some creature inside recalls<br />
these familial shapes. I feel it lift<br />
its snout in recognition, feel it<br />
groan beneath that billowing<br />
flood of high, sun-struck clouds.<br />
58 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Fe</strong> Literary Review