Lonesome Heat
Location
The crags and cliffs stretch down into
the brown of the landscape.
Everything is dead:
the trees, the animals, the earth...
all varying shades of abandonment.
Light bends and breaks in submission
to the heat.
Dead yet shimmering.
Dull yet bright.
Serene yet chaotic.
There is no hope for escape,
only the doom of being caught
in a beautiful haze.
Begotten, not made;
God's country
in a land
forgotten by God.