Contributor: Michael Seeger

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Amid the desert silence
All lay timeless and still.
Among Mesquite and creosote
You can breathe deeply
Within the silence,
Like the blue sky,
Growing deeper; soon
You will be silent, too.


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Michael lives with his lovely wife, Catherine, and still-precocious 16 year-old daughter, Jenetta, in a house owned by a magnificent Maine Coon (Jill) and two high-spirited Chihuahuas (Coco and Blue). He is an educator (like his wife) residing in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, California.