Ariane Lauren recently became a southwest desert dweller of Arizona.…
Arid heat is vastly different than our inshore warmth-
So I’m told.
Scratching through the deeper south, oppressiveness abides-
Summoning additional weight to an already unbearable existence.
Oblivious until tomorrow, when you feel a lacking effect-
Heaviness, off west, abandons you without consideration or thought.
Amongst the dust, gullies, and ancestorial painted monuments-
I beg you to leave me in kind, fostered by these russet lands.
Ariane Lauren recently became a southwest desert dweller of Arizona. Her work has been published in Moon Cola, The Levatio, Amphoria, The Minison Project, and more. She loves the smell of the earth after it rains, visiting museums, and fruit so much that her husband gave her the nickname 'fruit bat'.