Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert.

The cactus are blooming beaver tail and choyah and hedgehog cactus.

And the orange mellow is everywhere, and I don't mind saying it again.

This is the most beautiful, mild springtime, and I don't know how long up here.

And it is middle May.

Enjoy it while at last.

But as you know, was coming next.

Furnace time.

But not yet.

From you have I been absent in the spring.

When proud pied April dressed in all his trim,

hath put a spirit of youth in everything,

that heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.

Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell of different flowers and odor and in hue

that make me any summer story tell

or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew

nor did I wonder at the lilies white nor praise

the deep vermilion in the rose

they were but sweet but figures of deline the deep vermilion in the rose.

They were but sweet, but figures of delight drawn after you,

you pattern of all those.

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