life flow...

rojo
a day leaves the sky
and scrapes across the mountains
they bleed at my feet
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I was watching a sunset turn to twilight
the dwindling light picked out the rocks red veins
and the mountains glowed

out my door...

sear
stars slip through the night
burning trails in the darkness
like blood through my veins

all sides...

disappear
in roiling crowds
I slide into still quiet
to contradictions
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shoulder-to-shoulder, inhale to exhale crush
life sounds and words all around me
to the desert quiet pause
slow deep long breaths
from the ground
beneath me