Desert Speak

you have walked the glowing stone under a luminous lune

no substitution exists for the desert, it's nights, it's days

how do i capture the effervescent vigorous evening - a perfect evening - a perfectly paradoxical paradise!

the diamonds, rubies, topaz, hematite, sapphire, emerald, umber - ils glissent

they slide among the sage, pioneer's tea, the jaunting juniper, all intertangled as vegetative compatriots beneath the darkest sink of jet black ocean desert heavenous depths

our sky kingdom

calling our prophets and hermits, pilgrims, vagabonds, tramps

out here under the cavernous sky is where the superstructure we have created as reality dissipates into an everlasting image barely more audible and visible than a shivering shadow haunting our crippled forms