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197002 DesertMagazine 1970 February
Desert Magazine
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SUMMER DAY
By HELEN L. VOGEL
Mecca, CaliforniaAll heaven's bright and turquoise blue;No matrix cloud bewisps the skies,And from that dome of blatant hueThe sun grasps earth with molten ties.The sands are shimmering as the sea;The day stands still expectantly.No place for else but heat to be.Naught else but heat eternally.A brilliance presses down to holdThe earth upthrust to that embraceAnd searing though it is and boldThe land still lifts an eager face.No breeze bestirs the mounded sandOr tips a frond of sun-glazed palm.No sound of life awakes the landBedazed by sun to drug-steeped calm.
SUNSET
By ZENA HENDERSON
Phoenix, ArizonaPanting, the desert lies beneath the sunThe day, declining to the west has almost runIts scorching sands into a sunset glowThat gilts the breathless land below.Soon slips the sun behind the reddened hills.Soon all the heat that fillsThe grasping land will dieIn fluttering banners through the sky.Soon gracious curtains of descending nightWill filter out the glare and lightAnd all the desert into dreams will creepAnd soon the restless desert land will sleep.
DESERT'RETURN
By
S/Sgt.
MARCUS Z. LYTLE
Montrose, CaliforniaAmargosa, make your bitter waters sweet!Flowers of Panamint, you have not hopedin vain,Though you and I have waited years to feelThe resurrecting potency of rain!Wind of Muroc, toss the cottonwoods,Move their leaves in strange and joyoussong!A train is slowing on the moonlit track,The music I have waited for so long!
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Photo by G. E. Barrett.
MEXICAN SALES-CHILD
By BLANCHE M. IRVING
Las Cruces, New MexicoShe came to my door one evening at dusk,Her eyes the shade of approaching night,And stood in the aura of golden muskThat is core of the desert's deep twilight."Blue Waltz" she called it, with swift, nervousspeech,Her trembling braids were vocal with fear,She extended her box within my reachAs I opened the screen and she ventured near.I bought her bottle of fluid gold,She was small and thin, not over thirteen,Her smile made dramas of Spain unfold,Released on a whiff of cheap brilliantine!• • •
A PLACE APART
By RAY WILSON
Monterey Park, CaliforniaO Master, let me walk with TheeInto a place where I'll be free.A place apart where I may knowNo man-made houses row on rowWhere caged in humans come and goNor leisure for the soul to grow.O Master, let me rest a whileAnd help me as I reconcileMy tired soul to thoughts of Thee.On sandy floor from bended kneeI humbly raise my thanks to TheeFor this place apart, the Desert, free.• • •
THE GREATEST TEAM
By R. G. BEIDLEMAN
Colorado Springs, ColoradoThe ants and the stars,The lowly and the high.Man can fathom neither,The anthill nor the sky.So prolific are their numbers,So amazing are their ways,Entomologists, astronomers propound,But in a daze.Man aspires to intellectual heightsAnd gloats to reign supreme;But it's still the ants, the stars, and GodThat make the greatest team!
By CECILE BONHAM
Glendale, CaliforniaI am the desert; I possess the keyTo that eternal vault of legendryWhere lie the fierce adventurers of old;My Joseph's coat is shot with yellow goldAnd stained with red from jagged wounds Ibear;My yucca hides a dagger in her hair.But I have softer moments when my sageIs strong with rustling of a vanished age;When swift forays of sand are quietedAnd dusk lies heavy-lidded on my bed;Then twilight combs her ultra-colored maneAnd spills the fragments on my counterpane.In such a mood my memories lift and whirOn unseen wings; the cautious captives stir,And feathered braves in war-paint top the hillTo dance among the tokens of their skill.I am the desert, silent and alone,But ah, the golden days that I have known.
GHOST TOWN
By MURRAY SKINNER
Los Angeles, CaliforniaForgotten by the trail this ghostly townRears broken chimneys, glassless windows, wallsDisintegrating under desert's brownOnslaught of sand. Each crumbling bit whichfallsIs like a portion of a human lifeDestroyed by sapping fears and crude mistakes,And every shattered window is a knifeDriven to hilt in dreams which slow-time breaks.But desert's fingers reach across worn sills,And desert feet slip through the silent streets,While cholla roots in corners, and sage spillsIts fragrance on the desert wind that eatsIn endless gluttony on homes which manDeserted when the desert foiled his plan.
DESERT CANTEEN
By NELL MURBARGER
Costa Mesa, CaliforniaYou may choose to drink from a mountain lakeThat is born of the virgin snow;Or cool your lips in a laughing brookWhere the sky-blue violets grow.You may sip, if you like, from a tinkling glassOr drink of the fountain's sheen . . .But the grandest nectar of all is foundIn a rusty, old canteen.It's likely not of the purest sort,And it may be reddened with rust—But it comes as Life to the thirsty lipsThat are parched by the desert dust.There's many a way of quenching a thirst(And some of the best, I've seen) ;But the finest drinks that I ever hadCame out of an old canteen.
CREED OF THE DESERT
By JUNE LEMERT PAXTON
Yucca Valley, CaliforniaDeep silence is stirred by the desertbreeze,And warmed by the sun's embrace;The peace and solace everywhere foundAre a gift of the Father's grace.
THE DESERT MAGAZINE
DESERT
• Chuck Abbott, more of whose photo-graphs DESERT readers will be seeingon our covers, says, "I suppose you mightsay that photography just crept up on me.While at Desert Inn, Palm Springs, I'snapped' pictures of the guests while onpicnics, etc. and one day Mrs. Coffmanput a Graf lex in my lap and that was thebeginning of it all." After three yearsof publicity and pictorial photography atPalm Springs, he went to Tucson, Ari-zona, where for the past five years hehas been official state photographer forArizona Highways magazine and forTucson Sunshine Climate club — andsometime farmer. Although his camerawork has won him acclaim he says hiswife Esther Henderson is top photo-grapher in the Abbott household.• What is happening to one of thecountry's biggest wartime plants is toldin this issue by John Hilton whose story,"Joe Returns to his Job on the Desert,"is an up to date report on reconversionof Basic Magnesium, Incorporated, near
LE:S
Vegas, Nevada. In the June, 1944,issue of DESERT ("Miracle Metal FromNevada Hills") Lelande Quick gave avivid picture of the wartime productionof the plant which furnished one fourththe magnesium used by all the Allies inincendiary bombs—a dark contrast to theshining cooking utensils, artificial limbsand other products now being turned outfor rehabilitation of a world at peace.
DESERT CALENDAR
Jun.
1-2—Rand
District Old Timers re-union, Randsburg, California.Jun.
1-28—Fifth
annual exhibition LosAngeles lapidary society, main artgallery Los Angeles Museum, Ex-position Park. Daily free admission.Show opened May 4.Jun. 2—Horse and stock show, Victor-ville, California. Champion contes-tants, Cowboys Association of Amer-ica.Jun. 14-16—Annual Cherry Harvest fes-tival, Beaumont, California.Jun. 14-16—Annual convention and ex-hibition, California Federation ofMineralogical societies, Glendalecivic auditorium, 1401 N. Verdugoroad. Information, Mrs. L i 11 i eRhorer, 581 Summit avenue, Pasa-dena 3, California, of MineralogicalSociety of Southern California, hostclub.Jtn. 15—Air derby, Montebello, Cali-fornia, to Las Vegas, Nevada. Non-professional pilots, 150 privateplanes. Information: Ted Crouch,secretary Montebello chamber ofcommerce.
FISHING SEASONS
Arizona—Trout—May 30-September 30.California—Trout — May
1-October
31(Golden trout—July
1-Sept.
30).New Mexico—Trout (general) — May15-November 21.
Volume 9JUNE. 1946Number 8COVERPOETRYCLOSE-UPSMIGRATIONINDUSTRYHUMORQUIZFIELD TRIPPHOTOGRAPHYMININGART OF LIVINGNEWSHOBBYCRAFTCOMMENTLETTERS
JOSHUA FOREST, Joshua Tree national monument,near Twentynine Palms, California. Photo byHarry Vroman, Three Rivers, California.Voice of the Desert, and other poems 2Notes on Desert features and contributors ... 3Hopi Trek to the Land of the "Big Water"By DAMA LANGLEY 4Joe Returns to his Job on the DesertBy JOHN HILTON 10Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 14A test of your desert knowledge 14Stone Flowers in An Ancient PassBy HAROLD WEIGHT 15Prize winning photos in April contest 20Current news briefs 22Desert Refuge, by MARSHAL SOUTH 23Here and There on the Desert 25Gems and Minerals—Edited by ARTHUR L. EATON 31Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK ... 37Just Between You and MeBy the Editor . . .Comment from Desert readers
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StateStreet, El Centro, California. Entered as second class matter October 11, 1937, at thepost office at El Centro, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No.358865 in U. S. Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1946 by the Desert Publishing Com-pany. Permission to reproduce contents must be secured from the editor in writing.RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor. LUCILE HARRIS, Associate Editor.BESS STACY, Business Manager. — WALTER E. KNAPP, Circulation Manager.Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledgedunless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for damageor loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Subscribers shouldsend notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. If address is un-certain by that date, notify circulation department to hold copies.
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Thank you. Found a photo Claude "Pop" Epperheimer, my grandfather.