winter desert

does a sudden soft snow
on icing riverbeds
crossed by a frozen bridge
of sliding trailer-trucks

release a sigh in your mind like the ending of time?
does life roll through your gut?

can a rust colored road
carve a crystalline night
into stretches so wide

sensation slides through your spine like blood on the vine?
does life roll through your gut?

will the silhouetted stalk
of a sleeping black tree
showered in the tail of speeding space-rock

make you tilt your eyes high
see that light streaking the sky
know one day your soul will watch itself die?

does life roll through your gut?