Desert Penumbra

hope flies on silent wings she has had enough of this place you rub your thumb across sun-warmed obsidian swipe a swathe of dust from the arrowhead’s glowering face this is your only warning despair boils over the ridgeline storm wool carded in gleaming spines of prickly pear melting reduced to vascular mesh in the […]

Places I Have Cried for You

-1- The mountain hides  Wrapped by the storm that Presses cool kisses to my temples Unleashes a tide of snow To blanket the sleeping Earth I watch snow dust the feathers Of geese floating calm water They call to each other Remember how before the night came The mud gave Soft beneath webbed feet Sparkled […]