Somewhere on Google maps
in a desert, a pinprick in the sand ocean;
western China, I think—
weird beauty waits for satellites.
If I were there, in person
I’d probably be cold & thirsty
wishing someone had paved a road,
grumbling. But here: aloft, peering down
like some homesick cloud,
I see the pretty desert moguls
kept hidden from mankind, until
they invented cameras, and spacecraft,
internet connections, and late nights
full of nothing to do but find you
sitting still, invisible to those nearest by,
a secret majesty on the Earth.
September 2021
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