Cynthia Anderson lives in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park. She is the author of four poetry collections—In the Mojave, Desert Dweller, and Shared Visions I and 2 (in collaboration with her husband, photographer Bill Dahl). She is co-editor of the anthology A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Askew, Waypoints, Dark Matter, Whale Road, and Eternal Haunted Summer.
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► Cynthia's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poem are available below. Download the single-page micro-chapbook as a PDF by clicking the title. To read the selected poem below, also click on the title.
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Cover: Cholla Cactus Garden
at Joshua Tree National Park by Bill Dahl
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Every Origami Micro-chapbookmay be printed, for free, from this website.
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Two mourning doves
flutter under eaves, no place to nest— but, smitten by spring, they persist. Hummingbirds dart from blooming sage to red-spiked birds of paradise. Long-tailed lizards glide up rock walls, peer into crevices, pose in the sun. A single cloud billows higher, adrift in the blue.
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Cynthia Anderson © 2015
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