Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert - meaning Summary
Surreal Domestic Collage
The poem strings together domestic and cultural fragments—dog paintings, printed metal, "lucky trees", a mobile promoter of "the Indians", a child's portrait, and a possibly flooded lake—creating a collage of dislocated observations. Its tone shifts between casual inventory and puzzlement, suggesting commercialization, displacement, and submerged histories. The speaker's associative leaps emphasize bewilderment and memory over narrative coherence, leaving images to imply meanings rather than state them plainly.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is a tremendous interest in dog-related items, such as dog-paintings. Once they figured out how to print on tin, copper and silver with the horn on it, you have all the written equipment. Really major, I’d say. The lucky trees signed on. Then there was no room for latecomers. He was a very mobile person throughout his life, instrumental in helping promote the Indians. Those escapements, they would use in their luaus. It was my first ¾ length child. (Fumed oak.) Look how funny her little arm is. I think there’s a big old lake. I think the whole thing might be flooded now for reasons not fully understood.
from Planisphere (2008)
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