dust covers everything
gives everything
faded New Holland
dust rises
recolors jackhammers
side-by-side
an already sandy landscape
dust
a city built of rock
leaves
nothing but dust
for its inhabitants
for some
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it is so new
that everything
grows with the same uniformity
trees at the same height
each bush as bushy as the next
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morning warmth
turns to humid
bus with sun and yellow flowers open
green leaves
greener and new after rain
the devout women made more devout
with prayer beads
to accent the abaya
one rides the bus with us
through the desert
paved now with asphalt
side of the road littered
with broken signs
of deep excavation
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all dust-infused
all nautical nonesuch
of the nascent atmosphere
all a-cloud
shrouded in particularities
cranes on the horizon
a bright smudge above
where the sun was
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