Blue Heat
What if the sky were to make the rye a blanket of torched, silt-brown suns, each sheaf its own season of burning chaffs, each season waiting on a ruby-loam bed for the gift of water, some pocket to burst in the blue, thankless and true as two thorns of thistle. And we, from our tall dreams, might wake to see the brown stalks bowing with desire, as when the present yawns open in barren fields, as when waiting itself is its own perfectly blank hemisphere. Thick as sediment, tired as a body of grief, we’d see the field’s thirst as suffering’s home–– narrow, unfastened, eternally broke–– and beside this heat-glazed glow we would grow, ruptured hand in ruptured hand, rustled to the windless air, in suffering too, made to endure this thirst like the rye, until burnt and bare.