It may not be an omen

but, as I drive to the desert house
to get the last load of stuff,
I pass a pigeon
having lunch in a nearby wash.
Not a dove, a pigeon, and
I don't hear an owl or see hawks.
Coyoté is not here.

Desolation
is not knowing the center of the universe,
not knowing what is there, where it is.
I know.
I know the cosmic center of my universe.
I lived there this past year.
I may never live there again.
It may vanish in urban sprawl.
But it is there.
The center
is
there.
And I've lived in it.
I will always
know
it.
Wherever I range
a chord connects,
a line
turns my heart
home,
there, toward the center
of the universe.

Desolation
can not
enter
here
for there
Coyoté and Owl
shall always live.
RD Savage
12/12/98
© 1998

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