Explore "A Nevada Desert" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
An aching, blinding, barren, endless plain, / Corpse-colored with white mould of alkali, / Hairy with sage-brush, slimy after rain, / Burnt with the sky's hot scorn, and still again / Sullenly burning back against the sky.
Dull green, dull brown, dull purple, and dull gray, / The hard earth white with ages of despair, / Slow-crawling, turbid streams where dead reeds sway, / Low wall of sombre mountains far away, / And sickly steam of geysers on the air.