breaking ball*

desert heat
...................dust
stifles flexure visions
...................mirages

under scorched sun
steam rising from cracks
in half baked clay

crumbling sand hills
..................oases propelled
into horizon's helix

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in the kuchcha mountain path
cambers and trends, up and around
fallen rocks, trees, streams, rivulets
..................accost

over at the top visible frozen sighs
floating around, crashing into peaks
peaks beyond which lies a shangri-la
journey long......... life l o n g
...................curve laden

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in the plains smile streaked strives
with oases - rapport pauses
interminable travails of broken bends
temple to cheekbone, 'round eyes, lips
hourglass bents, rondure derriere
heaving and sinking round every curve
..................a new vista waits
meniscus palms propelling prayers
..................to conquer, cross, ignore

peace
...................ever elusive, whirling
straight, given, nor curvaceous

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*breaking ball: noun: a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter