THE MIRAGE

At times, emotion 

and feeling

radiate off us 

like heat waves

from dunes 

in the desert.

Though others

see these emanations

as fear or anger

and become entangled

with them, they are 

nothing more

than mirages, a heaving thirst 

for a deeper love

that arises like a gas

from the salt 

in the sand,

from an oracle 

in the earth-wound,

from the trauma terra firma 

living in the body-mind

of flesh, bone and blood.