Shimmering Substance

I

The blue sky and the land flat; 

the sun talking out loud to me; 

Eyes in the heat coming off the road winking at me floating...laughing at me

I keep going, pushing my legs onward onward ..................

II

I see your house, the door opens 

The lightning strikes me...it’s you a breeze,

you order rain and it comes, the eyes in the heat go away..

and you in that voice sweet and musical, word to me:

what took you so long my love