Bare bones of landscape on planetary scale.

Terrestrial muscles, stretching,

Fibrous within dry topography.

Gullies; dark, deep, damp,

Lines scared across the geography.

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Horizon; a silenced volcano,

Sky; clear, high, where flaming peak once roared

black ash, still darkening the soil.

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Warm wind drives sand grains,

Grinding every surface, in miniature and immensity.

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Life grips at the edges,

An anvil shouldering wind and sun,

Clinging, clinging lichen-like on.

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Windhoek, 2022