Article: Senses of place--y de placer--in Baja Arizona.(A Sense of Place)

I am out before dawn on a late August morn, chaotically wandering around like a senile naturalist lost in the midst of a city. But Tucson doesn't exactly seem like a metropolis to me; it feels more like a patchwork of neighborhoods, barrios and colonias packed tightly into the same desert valley like so many sardines jammed into a greasy tin.

The more I walk the summer streets of Armory Park Neighborhood, Barrio Viejo and Barrio Anita--their quelites and Bermuda grass and verdolagas growing out of every sidewalk crack and every pothole--the more I feel like I am crawling around the aging, disheveled body of a former lover, a woman I have not seen since her youth, ...

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