Once a smooth
emerald-velvet breast
—where silver lights
played and twigs rattled,
concrete crackled,
and sometimes,
sweetness sang
—deserts now splinter
and sometimes,
sweetness sang
—deserts now splinter
into angry glass, newly
mown sand transformed
by a blast of blazing
heat such as the world
has seldom known.
(c) 2018, by Hannah Six
Image: Sand dunes in Rub' al Khali, Arabia's "empty quarter".
Acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission
and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, aboard
NASA's Terra Earth-orbiting satellite.
Acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission
and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, aboard
NASA's Terra Earth-orbiting satellite.
