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| Hotter'n Blazes Sky dancers billowed, carried by the wind. Fluffy white some with tints of blue. Floating on the currents some gently bend. Some heavy laden with the dew. Rain streaked angles pouring out their rain. Dropping seedling moisture on dry barren land. Cacti drank and the sand lets it drain. Lizards relieved from the heat like frying pan. Mesquite spread open arms gathering every drop. Cottonwood stretched their roots, tatonies dripping wet. Pea like cottonballs unopened would soon start to pop. Flat table top mesa's sucked up all that they could get. Antelope now grazed the grass, mule deer did the same. Prairie dogs cleaned their holes as fox watched nearby. Burrow owls stood like rock, motionless was their game. The howl of the coyote bayed his mournful cry. A badger wanders lumbering, a waddle with a shuffle. Jackrabbits ears long and tall shed the heat with them. Horned toads skittered round, ants just right for supper. A blacktailed hawk circled high the dinner table set for him. Buzzards sailed and soared the sky waiting for a chance. A coiled rattle by the yucca never made a sound. Kangaroo tiny mice hopped and did their dance. The slither seen they soon went underground. Bear grass and native too flourish in the sun. All for a few drops of rain that seldom ever fell. Even dry and barren there's orchards of wild plums. This wildlife desert has survived even though it's hot as hell. The Masked Writer <o.o> <o.-> <o.o> (C) 2002 T Lovett |
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