Desert Creed

Desert-dry cracked heat

sage cologne -

economy size,

buck-99 all you can smell

at Walgreens.

Parched-hearted dust devils

romp 'tween chasms

in baked mud.

Life's reflected

wry and brittle

on most days

Click-click insects

buzz in scorched air.

Cow skulls stare -

wide-eyed and jawless

at nothing

Can-see to can't *

Wind-blown debris

camps out 'neath

desert extremes

rotted -

trapped -

oozing away

can't see to can. *

*Colloquial saying referring to working from dawn to dusk and/or dusk til dawn