SNOW ON THE SAHARA

SNOW ON THE SAHARA

snow on the Sahara
crazy
    as it sounds

were once grasslands here
far and wide as can be seen

but these
just niceties of
the catastrophic model

desert encroaching further
scurrying as we speak
through the Sahel

and we
         forgetful children of
near extinction
walking products still
prey to aftershock

but
memory is blessed here
will edit out such nightmares,
annihilate them

leave us
       suddenly sure

  primally certain

boundless of being
never again to lapse
into
   find ourselves
at the mercy
of uncertainty

sifting the signs
to remove
    portents, omens

look only with eyes
that see
     kaleidoscopically

snow
on the Sahara, need
to be there to see