Boasts+Life

Sage-circled desert  awakens, pink lamp above  its tabled gray edge.

Sprinkled sweet dew upon blue--  sneakered toes, hawk soars,

 Listens to silence broken;  greets her lonliness.

 ...she's content--day's  quest earned wings. Wind circles mid  cactus and blue jeans--

 dries life. Contrasts Gravity,  who pulls water, soaks,

 seeps life through thorned rosin brush--  velvet ants await,

 stings send scavengers  away from dusted hills. Not <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> her. Not she. She stays...

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Dangling creature limp in beak <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> contrasts her vigor--

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> tromped Devil's Claw and <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> yucca, leaves Whooly Daisy <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> untouched; yellow fire

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> dances on dried ground--cracked, caving. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Sharp sight saw rodent in

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> weeds; the circled life must end <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> while one just begins.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (3 chokas combined) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Japanese haikus: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Lines of 5, 7, 5 followed by repeated 7, 5 and again 7, 5. Then, for mine, repeated.