Yellow Woman In the Desert

see, shift, asking, ambivalent, bodies, lured, agreed, stop, why, yet, look, secret

see out over

the sand

dunes that
shift and settle

wind blowing
answers, never
asking

dust falling
into every ambivalent line

a mirage of
bodies

lured by
the smell of water

it does not
matter,
the desert will agree

to stop is to die.

so why did you
come here?

you sought barren
wilds, yet look -

every grain
of sand is fecund.

the secret lies
in the ability to start all over again.