Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DESERT NIGHT, by MARION GOBLE


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DESERT NIGHT, by                    
First Line: Come out and have a look at god
Last Line: And have a look at god, he said.
Subject(s): God


Come out and have a look at God
He said.
So we made little wishbones of our thoughts
In the desert,
In the moonlight,
And sprung them, and had our wishes,

The Joshua trees were without peace in the peace of the land;
We looked aside, encountering them.
Smoke trees were gentle,
And the sage brush was chastened
By moonlight.
Rabbits sprang in the brush.

God had done it, and we two were alive to witness.
(And all the time my mind was away from it,
In a past or in a future without this.
My mind was a quick rabbit in the brush.
My mind was contemplating the Joshua.)

Come out
And have a look at God, he said.





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