MARTIAN DESERT AFTERNOON is an impressionistic collection of "poetic statements" about America, places and people, in the last half of the Twentieth Century-observations, impressions, descriptions. All of which contain perceptive insight on what is sometimes referred to as "Many a Vanished Sight..." There are moments when the perceptions seem almost at the point of madness, but generally the work is a sort of wandering psychedelic journey across America. And, at times, "into America..."