Refugia by Kyce Bello

Author:Kyce Bello [Bello, Kyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948908337
Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Dowsing

Driving from one shady place to the next takes all day,

and if it seems we get along

I will tell you the frenzy

of locoweed blown flat against the highway’s hot river.

At the malpais, we hold hands but cannot speak. Our lips

leafless and barbed as ocotillo.

Near the border crossed by its ten thousandth child

rangers ramble the desert, pierce

plastic bottles scattered beneath mesquite.

Traces of water seep from yucca spears and cactus

to the tangled grass

where each green blade is pressed down

in a bed of green blades.

We cannot sing save for plucking petals

and placing them on the relief of our tongues.

We almost have words for love

only to find they mean hand, they mean

open, they mean

here was a place to drink.

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