The Ciel Show for Monday, June 7, 2021

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Monday, June 7, 2021

IT'S A DRY HEAT: a new summer poem

A dry heat crackles, parches the pale and spiny desert. In the red-rock lands of colossal clouds that stride the sky like gods-- lit with sunlight, shadows, sometimes hearts aflash with lightning glows and casting the colored laughter of rainbows in curtains that never touch the ground. Warm, essence of sage and mesquite on the air... Dry heat shatters: The storm, relentless, a vivid line between the wet and dry, audibly advancing; the potent male rains come on hissing over sand and rock,... Sign in to see full entry.

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