Saturday, September 19, 2015

SUMMER DUST

Summer months are fitted and cloaked
With worthless layers of dusty fabric
Assembled by wind, kicked up by bare feet,
And cascaded by rapid wheels or birds’ wings.

Uncoveted, it collects itself on any surface,
Covers up the appearance of things,
Disguises the wilted and dying,
With a thin, archetypal mask,
Conceals the luster of what had been.

Shape-shifting vagabond, without destination,
Leaves my footprints in the doorway,
Leaves an imprint of the summer’s dry sun
On the deepest well of the collective mind
As I wash it away. 

©cmheuer, 2015



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