Written for Frank Tassone: https://frankjtassone.com/2020/07/11/haikai-challenge-147-7-11-20-smoldering-hot-moyuru-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/

Looking left to right there is nothing but sand. The wind picks up a layer and swirls it to make new designs. Heat can be seen laying closely to the sand, almost touching the earth. Life is limited and sparse.

Desert is smouldering
Life lives in a different way
Dryness and heat here

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