Searching (Day 358)

searching 

   for safe passage

on a map 

of the gray 

   and rainy space 

   in your heart

no clear route 

   between 

   here and there

   just trailing words

dotted where towns were 

with small 

   black 

      holes

(c) 2017, by Hannah Six

Image: Black Sunday dust storm, April 14, 1935 (US NOAA Public Library). You can see some truly incredible photos here: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=blacksunday-maps