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Gary Hunter

Pigments of the Desert - Aug. 18, 2023

green is a soft color

brown the much tougher one


that heat-beaten

wind-battered hue

of cliffs and crags

lizards and coyotes

thorns and sand

and everything dead


blue is the vacuous

waterless sea above

our sun not yellow

but laser white

a cruelty killing dreams

of all colors


and the few rafts

of clouds I see above

look down


but with no good beach

to go ashore


just keep going

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