Strange Days Stacking Up
Strange days stacking up
feet that have never stepped foot
in Saharan sands
now the Sahara comes to me
The experts promise there isn’t anything unusual
about this visit from the desert
but is there anything usual left in the world
I wonder what the sunset will look like
What kind of wind does it take
to pick up the desert and give it the shape
of a traveler visiting in the hazy twilight
strange days indeed
Just an air quality advisory, another warning
the Sahara is coming, sandstorm in the South
will we even see it?
strange days stacking up
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As if we didn’t have enough to marvel at these day in the line of strangeness here we have Saraharan dust. Strange as This Weather Has Been, is a book title using a phrase we hear often in the mountains. Good book you brought it to mind.
I love what you have done here. There’s nothing better to muse on than the Sahara Dust Storm!
For me, the poem echoes Jesus’s 40 days of spiritual retreat in the desert, not to mention Moses’s time in the desert.