Jim Corner is owner and publisher of the Desert Moon Review celebrating it's six year anniversary. Jim lives in Arizona with his wife Kathy and dog Trudy. He is published often on the web, and also in several hardcopy editions.
Winter 2007
Table of Contents - Vol. III, No. 4
Poetry Essays Fiction Book Reviews
Sacaton
Barely a prickly pear breaks
through adobe crust where the road
leaves asphalt; I imagine a mirage:
fields of purple lupine and damp green
where irrigation reigns,
though an ancient ambiance
does not return.
In the eleventh century the Gila
flooded beyond Casa Grande; where corn
was king, potters spun jars,
you would have etched the green ware
inside and out into exquisite urns:
blue and rustic orange from the kiln.
This eve, at dusk, lunar half-light
transforms the village; I lie with you
in straw while crook pipes
hypnotize our libidos.
Caught between two dimensions,
we caress as sleep hovers.
© Jim Corner