On gentler days it mirrors the sky like a painting when the wind whips through  the dry air it ripples  from a distance like a bubbling  cauldron of tiny stars and at dusk it bleeds from the sun it's cool to the touch and feels right  cupped  in the hands cradled in the mouth  it quenches  when swallowed refreshes then pain  ensues deep inside, numbness visions, dizziness delirium dreams dying a few cells at a time with every trip to the only water within reach then it passes....

 

 

 

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