Salt on skin bare to the sun burns like that high fire flowing through canals from scar to scar...
Desert Wounds
Tag: desert
Let the Earth Bury Me
Let the Earth bury me here, beneath slow winds and shifting sand...
Long Shadows
There is a tower risen out of sand, a wall built to touch both horizons at the edges fallen into raging seas...
Deities
It was perfect weather for a funeral the sky above swollen, gray heavy with a rain that might not fall...
Bacchanal
What once flowed as bacchanal wine, soaking into soil where seeds waited to sprout has spread to the edge of desert and evaporated...
Things Fell Apart
We must be on the third or fourth coming by now. Maybe there was a scheduling error...
The Scryers
Stand and speak in tongues of fire, stories of the last flame in this desert world...
After the Wave
After the wave broke and rolled back we came to the beach to see what had washed ashore...
Cornucopia
Through lands of milk and honey he went, left behind all who watched him walk away to search for those in the shadows who still reach for the cornucopia...
No Vision
No vision of the sun laid bare, only distorted reflections through desert haze...
Antique Secrets
Passage back into dreams I’ve seen can be bought with the last drop of rain fallen in a land made desert...
Rage On
On the other side of the desert, we came to a lake of fire...
Death Blow
You’ve been bleeding ink for miles on your dead man’s trek across the desert...
Eyes Open
Into wild country go the few with eyes open away searching for what they’ve already seen...
Through Fire
In the desert under sandfalls a black box speaks in acid tongues...
