Thursday, April 19, 2012

Empty Quarter #2

Empty Quarter #2

Blown in, weather-swept waves,
The sky turned through the wires—
Sheer bruises unsettled over the city.

Waiting for something.  Anything.
A man at the road-edge.
Lithe imprint, where the desert begins.
Granular in what it moves.

In the event of no return—
Substitute—me for him—and let it stand
That a man, on the road-side
Abandoned, is one smooth remove
From the end of the world—
           See—the edifice sheared off in the distance,
          Dry channels, choked rivers—
Endlessness—
         Where the sea once was.

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