Thursday, April 29, 2021

Dale Basin Haiku

Sheephole Mountains

DALE LAKE 1
Pleistocene plenty
A palace of indifference
Observant, faithless

DALE LAKE 2
Mist veiled nabkhas
Dale glimmering snow white
day's pregnant unrest

DALE LAKE 3
eye drink Dale Lake dry
the baited brine noiselessly
swell a crystal crust

FIVE ACRES 1
Virus dreaming green
off-grid, off-green, dry campers
Tuff Sheds on the lake

FIVE ACRES 2
Desert tropes, Dear John
140 years of failed dreams
Ain't enough for me

FIVE ACRES 3
Bad actors under
Aeolian blisters bake
ham-fisted desert

DESERT MODERNISM
Hashtag swag, Dear John
suburban feralities
Ka-Ching, greener Green

GREASEWOOD
Recovered memory
Larrea Tridentata
and managed retreat

LATE PLEISTOCENE LAKES
On deckled shores
dry lakes measured in bits of
Rhode Island units

[From a work in progress]