Yellow Clay

it that yellow clay brother
five years in any direction
before you saw something other
than your own reflection
even then it just a cactus or a rock
it that yellow clay brother
leaves its mark
and you don’t know where your life gone
hard and cracked when it wasn’t running
slick in a temporary stream
sink in get stuck lose a shoe lose a sock
it that yellow clay brother
cut you up

Doodled temporal diagram of a desert

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