Crash & Sizzle [Free Verse]

waves roll over 
with a soft crashing
white noise
that splays out into a sizzle
as foamy water
expands flatly over hot sand

until the sizzle is washed out
by the next wet crash

and then more sizzle

and then more crash

sizzle & crash
crash & sizzle

Divergence [Haiku]

footprints in the sand
diverge, and i wonder
if there’s a story

Spider in the Sand [Haiku]

a spider scurries
across the sand, without
dislodging a grain

Desert Mystery [Haiku]

tracks in sand
stretch dune after dune;
no life in sight

Cancun Limerick

The kids struck out for the white sands of Cancun,
but to avoid throngs they went at high noon.
A crowd, there was not.
It was so freakin' hot
that each and every last one of them swooned.

Desert Dunes [Haiku]

sand dunes 
textured with snaky furrows:
dunes upon dunes

DAILY PHOTO: Walking Charyn Canyon

Taken in the Summer of 2019 in Kazakhstan

Desert Haiku

Cubes of sand
Tumble on a tiny scale
Scouring history








Camel lurches
Only in a land of sand
could it kneel



Grain of sand
Do you miss the sea
from whence you came?



Bleached bones
Sandblasted lopsided
How will you go?



Wind blown
zebra stripes in the sand
Nature’s echo



Dubai

DAILY PHOTO: Dunes & Sky

Taken in the desert outside Dubai in May of 2016

Taken in the desert outside Dubai in May of 2016