TANKA

oxygen-starved lungs       

racing pulse

scanning the darkness

a dozen eyes glowing

surrounded

Aurelio Rico Lopez III

***

Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah          

Rust-toned

monoliths rise

from the barren desert,

red, like the russet hues of Mars,

like home.

J.E. Stanley

***

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