desert glow

 

saharan sands fill the skies

with a faraway silvery grey glow

shielding our skin

and the white caustic lime stone of our desert 

from the penetrating rays of our sun

we are suspended in an other worldly respite

from the unforgiving radiance 

emanating from the center of our local gyre

an explosive force reborn again and again and again

here in our piece of heaven

is muted enough just enough

to dream

—Lorena Wolfman