Prickly Pear Cactus

I love Cactus!  There's something about life that survives the desert.   In my mind I see the desert as it once was.  Barren, burning and freezing, yet teeming with those survivors everywhere.  This poem came out of my wanderings through California deserts.  So diverse and yet there's something about the desert...

Prickly Pear Cactus

I am a cactus

with slanted eyes

The red fruit 

bears little resemblance

to other places

It is my heart,

born in this desert,

fortified by the hot soil

I do belong here! 

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