“
Down here
the layers of earth
are comforting
like blankets.
The soil I think of
as time. Below the caliche
I sift through sediment
from thousands of years.
Though the sharp desert light above
is another world, its pulse
courses through me.
When the mastodons
and ground sloths roamed,
its pulse coursed through me.
When the Hohokam
in the canyon
ground my pods
in the stone
its pulse coursed through me.
When the new gatherers
of the desert
learn again how to live here,
its pulse will course th
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― The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
― The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
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Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about 2.0 inches per year relative to the interior of North America.
In scenario 1, the San Andreas fault is the sole locus of motion. Baja California and coastal California shear away from the rest of the continent to form a long, skinny island. A short ferry ride across the San Andreas Strait connects LA to San Francisco.
In scenario 2, all of California we
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