Awake Unto Me: Selected Poems

ISBN: 0595332811

Author: Rosenquist, Connie

Condition: New

Running In the EveningI've run until my breath has gone away;the rising winds disturb the forbidding sands;the cacti rustle with the close of day,their blackened forms in all directions stand.My eyes are dazed from the shimmering heat,the lemon-gusts of sage dry out my nose;I look around as evening, like a sheetof darkened blue, to moonless blackness grows.A windless rustle eerily crawls awayagainst horizons always past my sight I can't be sure now-what has come my waycould be the wind-or something from the night-And as the darkness chills my sun-burned skin,I sense the desert slowly closing in.