Red Dust

Red Dust


cleaning day Friday
cleaning day Friday and vacuum
cleaning day Friday and vacuum bag plump
red Sahara dust blown Sahara dust blown clear
across the Atlantic Africa wafting in our windows
silt ghosts settling on our couches our shoulders table tops
silt ghosts like flurries in our tracheas our lungs bags
plump with red Sahara dust blown clear across
the Atlantic the blue wet grave of the dead
Mummy’s ancient broom choked with
the sweet hair of the dead



© Samantha Thornhill

Published in Rhapsodia