6 x 9 Watercolor
Joshua Tree, CA
A midnight sky of clouded scales
Lightning bolts from a salmon stream
Emerging from these golden eddies
The gleaming vessels of Moon and Mars
The silhouettes of secretive trees
Propped against a sleeping mountain
Awareness of our whispered breaths
Consummates a desert yearning
We are blue auras within the sheltered valley
The fragmented skeletons of honored dead
This holy place submerged in a chromosphere
A bier illuminated by a persimmon lantern
Grains of sand adrift impacted earth
Our feet alight on a granular pillow
The quiescent flora of an arid dream
Yields the fragrance of wind-driven days
So does the Meteor kiss the face of Nyx
Above the deepest recesses of shadowed stone
We are thus revealed from our hiding hollow
And our trembling mouths drink the moonbeams
LiNdA
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