These poems are peaceful celebrations of the Southern California desert, Scott Zeidel's home. He writes about the desert's profound beauty found in simple, unassuming plants and critters like desert dandelions, blue agaves, monarch butterflies, mockingbirds, kestrels, verdins, and doves. But Zeidel's poetic voice has room for other things, too-a nostalgic tribute to his youth in "Childhood Quintet," a sweet whimsical cycle in "Four Love Songs,"...
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