The Virgas of Fall

The sky in summer is so blue

it's black.

But now, in fall

here the earth has been lifted by the wind into the sky

and huge monsters

of dust

and more solid than dust

of dirt and wind and blinding stinging twisting blowing

stride across the sky

to do battle.

The Virgas of Fall.

The dust in your nose, in the back of your throat.

Your skin, dry, your eyes, on the edge of tears,

The sky, so huge, so monstrous.

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