Together

by Angela LeBlanc


The wind whistles
hot against the dry red rock,
lashing through dry leaves that cling.
Words—
gasping for life,
suffocated and trapped.
Talons scrape the clouded horizon:
pinks invade yellows, slash purples.
Desperate for distance—flight.
Running, breathless and terrified
from the truth.
Arid color splashed across the sky.

 

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