By chris
Date: 2007 Mar 27
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(Live) from the Southern Deserts

Only hours from our home
yet the air feels different -
drier and
more textured,
blowing across a land
where
pools of disappearing
water
collect on highways
like apparitions
from fever dreams
and rivers run
underground.

Night now
and the breeze comes up
from Mexico,
warm
and intoxicated
on mescal and too much
beauty.

We see it in the mountains by
day -
as though ripped raw
once
from a still-cooling earth,
the process nowhere close
to being over.
I see it in your eyes,
reflected back at me.

We're getting closer.