In the Desert
By: Kim Packard
In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter – bitter”, he answered,
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
-Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders published May 11, 1895
Why Is This Night Different?
Why is this night different
now that we are older
and our children are with us
each one of us crosses the same desert
helping the stragglers
lifting the forlorn and lost
helping life into life
helplessness into healing hope
we are here together
hearing each story as if it were our own
committed to keeping the story alive
the journey going
- Ray Shankman
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c’est qu’il cache un puits quelque part.
What is beautiful about the desert, said the Little Prince, is that it hides a well somewhere.
- Antoine Saint-Exupéry (1943)
A list of deserts in the world
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01Raymond Depardon
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02Raymond Depardon
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03Nicolas Roeg
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04Sergei Dvortsevoy
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05David Lean
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06Luigi Falorni
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07Byambasuren Davaa
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08Stanley Donen
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09Valerio Zurlini
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10Koreyoshi Kurahara
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11Zacharias Kunuk
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12Nacer Khemir
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13Gus Van Sant
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14Bernardo Bertolucci
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15Abdoulaye Ascofaré
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16Nacer Khemir
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17Djibril Diop Mambéty
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18Joris Ivens
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19Shadi Abdel Salam
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20Kristian Levring
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21René Laloux
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22Gianfranco Rosi
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23Souleymane Cissé
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24Billy Wilder
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25Sherry Horman
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26Tatsuo Sato
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27Caroline Link
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28Nina Menkes
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29James Algar
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30Robert Aldrich
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31Tracey Moffatt
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32Nacer Khemir
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33Heinz Emigholz
