Imperceptibly cooler here
the breeze a bit nervy

but nothing has changed
except the date

a sense of closing
distance but also

wonder–
the moon narrowing

a door reopening
is it any wonder

that signals
might get crossed?

.

Desert-bound
to sort it out

with arid skies
and flat nights

to measure against–
heat dampening ambition

where small flecked falcons
coast in draggy circles

beneath a pitiless sun
their shadows scripting out

something wholly
unintelligible–

.

and where I can
accept this