19 | August | 2008 | qarrtsiluni

The Latch Once Lifted

August 19, 2008 4 comments

Light opens, vertical
like your body, your
shape but growing
and glowing as who would not
want to — so
you are willing
to risk desert, the scorch
of it, its lack
of hiding places.
You’ll be a lizard
surviving
in a dry arroyo,
each yesterday washed away
by flooding light.

by Lisken Van Pelt Dus

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