these stick figures painted on rock move as the light moves hold a listening pose – wedded to each white moment where lizards sun stretched upon pale boulders upon images drawn by a child, aborigine in the land and its parent heads together Joshua trees at a family meeting – the convention of bristled immobility of shaggy silences overleaning kangaroo rat's back entrance and pebbled well of the trap-door spider whispered rustling separate lives grow on...roll by desert people do not interfere where aloneness winds upon itself, exposing long sequential moments of its thin muscular diamond body
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