The Wasteland

The Wasteland
Filling in the blank, white spaces of the world with words!

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Afghan Downpour

The horizontal rain of mercury
Spatters the dry rocks, gouges the desert.
A sharp clap!
The air animates with arcing flashes.
A sudden shift of the ground surface
As striking shafts of light explode.
And then the wind, the furious, confused wind,
Starts up, whipping earth, whipping faces.
All is slick with life, thumping
From the sputtering, drowning soil.

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