Awake Unto Me Selected Poems

Running In the Evening I've run until my breath has gone away; the rising winds disturb the forbidding sands; the cacti rustle with the close of day, their blackened forms in all directions stand. My eyes are dazed from the shimmering heat, the lemon-gusts of sage dry out my nose; I look around as evening, like a sheet of darkened blue, to moonless blackness grows. A windless rustle eerily crawls away against horizons always past my sight? I can't be sure now'what has come my way could be the wind'or something from the night? And as the darkness chills my sun-burned skin, I sense the desert slowly closing in.Rosenquist, Karl is the author of 'Awake Unto Me Selected Poems', published 2004 under ISBN 9780595332816 and ISBN 0595332811.