Please Note: Due to the Desert Gala, there will be no Theater Animal Experience Fri 4/25 - Mon 4/28. The Ironwood Restaurant will close at noon on Sun 4/27. The Ironwood Gift Shop, Baldwin Gallery, and the Desert Garden will be closed all day Sun 4/27.

Woven Words: Poetry of the Sonoran Desert

Limberbush: Rebecca Seiferle

... how radiant
is the ordinary, overlooked, the never-seen
when branches that seem dead or stricken
leaf and flower in the rain.

Of Interest

This poem is included in the The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide. Rebecca is the current poet laureate of Tucson.

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