Desert Reflections

Desert Reflections Desert wind lifts the white blanket of sand again Into the granulated fog like moving cover that it is Conditions that prevail against the host of light Blocks visibility, blots out the sun Yellow in its infinite enormity It normally occupies a large portion of the sky But the blue dome of Earth which it covers Dwarfs the size of sun at dusk The blue goes on forever in the open end of days Growing smaller by the hour on a heavy horizon ledge Creates there, a heavy matter of reflection on the dunes As sands cut through Weathers what ever limited tree and vegetation there might be Always on the verge of extinction as the future moves in With precious little water to consume Ever moving with the dunes in that direction Thirsting for something other than a desert