shriven

verb:
to have received the confession of; to have imposed penance on; to have granted absolution to

always sand
in these parts
the camel driver says
he laughs in white
eyes lazy with heat
but without which no trail
singes the dunes
a line of imagined fire

sand says the other
we would not live but for
as a boat without the river
reeds without the river

6 months ago
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