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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK
First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright
Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright
Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright
As silver ribbons twisted in the sun;
With gravid weight they crush the daring one
Who ventures forth in day's oppressive light.
Slow Gila monsters crawl in sluggish flight
Across this waste which all but reptiles shun.
Grey dust goes swirling where dry gullies run,
Beyond the grim saguaros' solemn height.
Sharp-scented greasewood permeates the air
Like some rare oil of old Egyptian brand;
The desert seems a mummy, dried and bare,
Embalmed by arid sun, and spice, and sand;
Such stifling hotness surely must compare
With worlds just cast from God's creative hand.
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