Andrew Rader Hanson         Delray Beach         (Alexa Doran)
Twentynine-Palms

December rasp, dust in stream,
lust of color illumined. The dealer
smears the stars & splits
a stone decked & assembled
by yesterday’s air. Tumbleweeds
gambol sunward, & in the dusk,
by their shadows, weave the sky
into the sand--