Cactus Quote by Douglas Woolf

“So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.” quote by Douglas Woolf — Download Open image

““So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.””

Douglas Woolf

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Cactus Desert Moon

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