Night in the desert
August 25, 1999
blooms silent. moon shadows
cacti. Hush as coyote waits
for hare. The Milky Way, a spill
of gauze across a lucid sky.
Nothing human lives here.
They sweep by in steel-encased
air-conditioned ease. Radios blare.
Stars fall in their wake.
(c) Copyright 1999. The Christian Science Publishing Society