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SandScript 2020

SandScript is published annually at the end of the spring semester. All works of prose, poetry, and visual art that appear in SandScript are created by students attending Pima Community College.

SandScript is published annually at the end of the spring semester. All works of prose, poetry, and visual art that appear in SandScript are created by students attending Pima Community College.

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Creosote Joy

Wendy Wiener

Creosote bush after a rain

Musical with resins and phenols

A scent so intense

Like a djinn spiraling in

Redolent with pine bark and myrrh

POETRY

Dance with this plant, this amazing plant

Let it drip-drop its essence on you

To encircle you with a sensual scent

That whispers desert secrets so true

A mystical treasure in common dress

Conjuring skills to survive

Larrea tridentata (whoosh)

A bit of magic will help you to thrive

A mild toxin from the roots tells other plants to scram

Shallow roots that vacuum the rain

Quicker than other plants can

Dancing branches lithely bend

Trickling water from their ends

Tiny leaves sporting resinous coats keep

Browsing animals at bay, but

Creosote’s a welcome mat for

Burrowing animals in need of shade

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