Title – Barefoot Desert

Author – Amanda Barusch

Genre – Poetry

Type – Poem

Publication Date – October 16, 2014

Publisher – Stone Path Review (UK)

Medium – Magazine

Available at – Stone Path Review (via MagCloud)

Link – https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/823370?__r=322616

PDF – Stone Path Review Fall 2014

Source Text:

Barefoot Desert

Morning clouds flame but the cold hills

insist on shadow. Faces of indigo stone

clutch the snow in their creases. A child’s feet could still

warm the earth, wake the meadow, and know

the path of each skylit memory. Instead, she will

tiptoe away from the dark mountain frown

to dance barefoot in the desert sun

and share honey dates with a black-necked swan.

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