Author Archives: Roman

More than today, now,
how the confession was wrung
from desert scars
dappled Mars

anodyne sagebrush spires
offer offerings 
dune dues
paid in cloudbursts

one per trillion seconds
wrecking silence
with even more grainy hands
dried past the point of lakebed bottom

leafy sacrilege
so removed from trees 
as to deny knowledge shadows
of a poisonous possibility

delivered by
two long teeth
to make this razor hedge
into tomorrow's saguaro.