Heat – Page 35 – Iron Haiku

Garden

Dark flowers bloom as
Small drops of rain release the
Incense of the earth

Rising from my tea
White threads of heady vapor
Clear the dross of sleep

Smoky music seeps
Through these thin apartment walls
And pools in my ears

Heat searing the dunes

Visions of water beckon

Far in the distance.

A desert reborn

As rain coalesces and

Falls to the parched earth

Smoke borne on the wind

Transporting me to the hearth

Of my childhood home

Our love together

Once bathed in fire, now kept warm

By an ember’s glow

Pin points of pure fire
Adrift in the firmament
Lit by the sunset

A humid spring day
Sudden rain soaks the asphalt
And leaves it steaming