Desert Visions

The desert heat that summer reached record temperatures in the high 130s. I remember the experience being quite miserable when I was there, but somehow look back on it with fond memories.

We went from a cold winter and cool summer in Washington State to record breaking temperatures in the California desert. Our section started out with eight, and I think there were two of us left by the end of the second day.

I wrote this poem that night, after the medi-vac - the seventh that day - flew the heat casualities out of the pause.