Dust-whorl
The wind picks up a handful of dust, And sets it down — Faint spiral of lives Lived long ago on the desert.
Alice Corbin Henderson
The wind picks up a handful of dust, And sets it down — Faint spiral of lives Lived long ago on the desert.
A sudden wind snatches a handful of dust from the desert floor, twirls it into a brief spiral, and then lets it fall. In that fleeting motion, the speaker glimpses something else: the faint, lingering presence of lives that unfolded here ages ago.
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