Desert Thunder

Desert Thunder

I live on earth
Lightly.

I make no footprint
Take nothing with me
Leave nothing behind.

My breath dissipates
Wispy as mist.

What few words I speak
Are as a turtle song
The coo of a dove
The thought of a dream.

The boldest of my speech
Is desert thunder...
Rumble without echo.

]My shadow shrugs off the soil
Like an old coat.

I am unencumbered
Of this shrink-wrapped
Pre-packaged
Tawdry and cheap facsimile
Of what passes for life
In this sad age.

I live on earth
Lightly.