The desert peaches are blooming.
Their wild perfume fills the air.
It's sweet but earthy and uncultivated,
like all the high desert verdure.
The flowers are small, but plentiful,
they cover the entire shrub.
Desert peach dots the sagebrush landscape,
like a pink and dusty green watercolor.
Carnation or baby pink with magenta stamens,
the colors will dominate the terrain for a dozen days or so,
and then the flowers will fade, and the desert peach will blend back into the scenery, where no one will notice, unless they know.
(c) Jeanice Deering 2013
Their wild perfume fills the air.
It's sweet but earthy and uncultivated,
like all the high desert verdure.
The flowers are small, but plentiful,
they cover the entire shrub.
Desert peach dots the sagebrush landscape,
like a pink and dusty green watercolor.
Carnation or baby pink with magenta stamens,
the colors will dominate the terrain for a dozen days or so,
and then the flowers will fade, and the desert peach will blend back into the scenery, where no one will notice, unless they know.
(c) Jeanice Deering 2013