Corporation

I believe I wrote this poem towards he end of 1995, but did not title it till about 2011.  This is a republish from my other blog http://jordantrip2014.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-return.html .  I am just consolidating my poetry in one place.

Corporation

The beastly head of the cobra

The unnoticeable ripple of the dry sand

The unspoken stillness of the venom death

Mars the dry crusted skin of the desert

In it life flows, unseen abundant

Furtive movements, slight, unnoticed

In it flows death, seen abundant

Skeletons dry and crusted

It is here that I dwell among them

One shady spot no different than another

It is here that sand resembles sand

No differentiation among them

The stillness of the night chills the bones

The coldness of the night crawls through the stones

The day and night show uncanny resemblance

The sparkling mirages fill the imagination

The unending mirages give hope to the naive

But in mirages I do not believe.