a desert’s gloaming

the desert winds

blown through gauzed pains

of a mind gone treading aside

a departure from this vista's gloam

the leftovers

but a shadowed shell of selves

leant and propped

afluttered and flouncing

in a bluster gaining potency

now that obstacles have receded

and fallen to the dust

on the trails of a life

lived outside this ardent valley

flush