REH’s Writings

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The Grim Land

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From Sonora to Del Rio is a hundred barren milesWhere the sotol weave and shimmer in the sun —Like a horde of rearing serpents swaying down the bare defilesWhen the scarlet, silver webs of dawn are spun.

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