prairie dust fills
my nostrils
incessant baked clay
smell
of home
wind washed grit coats
lips and teeth
I swallow heat familiar
thirst
badland twilight tricks
my eye
dusk dominoes down
the steep valley walls
night draws circles
plays hide and seek
snakes through
scrub brush armed
with thorns
hoodoos stalk
the edge of sleep
memories of home
of love denied
my buried dragons
erupt
rockhard
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