Desert Dweller

today’s weather:

windy…
with a 100% chance of more wind…
steady unrelenting wind…
gusts that will knock off your socks…

wind that transports dust, debris
and ruby-slippered girls
to places that aren’t Kansas.

just wind…lots of wind…

an inordinate amount of wind…

enough wind to power a nation…
enough wind to sail the seas…
enough wind to fly a kite…
to the moon, Alice.

© 2026 Bruno Talerico
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When I moved to the grasslands of southern Arizona,
a neighbor told me “we only get three seasons here: hot as hell, wet as hell and windy as hell.” He was right.