DESERT FIREWORKS: Witnessing the Spectacle of Nature

	The desert is on fire
	yet there is no ordinary flame
	It is burning with explosive beauty
	and on fire in so many ways!

	If you listen closely
	you might notice the incinery displays
	as bat wings flap above peyote blossoms
	closing at the break of day

	The desert is on fire
	and most people are unaware of the flames
	they only see digital simulations
	on computer screens
	day after day after day . . .


Carla:  Many of the desert's natural pyro-technics go unnoticed.

Carlos: Yeah, it's all a question of speed: most people move so fast that
        they fail to notice the slowly-exploding fireworks all about them.

Reed:   Doesn't it go in the other direction, too? Human timespans are so 'slow' 
        that many amazing things are over in less than an eye blink.

Yahui:  (with a slight nod) You have a point . . .


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from Desert Chants: Hearing the Voice of the Wilderness  
SUMMARY:   Some thoughts about the explosive beauty of deserts and human timespans
KEYWORDS:  effulgent landscapes, natural miracles, burning man, human timespans

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun:  2000 in Nagoya, Japan  ✶ Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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