sweat pours, deluge
of oppressive heat, thick
black oil, clotting
my mind to numbing rage-
words, wrinkled ash
tumbled from my cracked lips-
lost in sea-sands-
@Grace
Posted for D'verse Poets Pub - Drought or Deluge, hosted by Walter Wojtanik. Having arrived from California, I was struck with the drought images of the hills and fields.
