Haibun: This Desert

Walking through the desert, a desert bleached to the color of numb by the harsh sun, there’s no green to inspire hope. In the Sonoran Desert I can be the emotions I walked in with and the inner world I walk back out with. Naked, there’s no excuses to escape from where I am inside to someplace else inspired around me. The desert doesn’t allow this, and in that way the desert is healing.

cactus casts shadows
when the sun gets low, to show
winter set to close