By scqueen
Date: 2001 May 10
Comment on this Work
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Santa Ana winds slap my face with hot dust
and the skirt I wore to impress him billows out.
I carelessly smooth it down and it defies me,
like the sun that is baking my legs.
The soles of my feet are the color of fresh laid sod
and my hair reflects prisms of an abalone shell.
Soon the dusk will bring me peace in the crisp sea air,
and I will tell the man that brought me West
that I love him.