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But the Sahara isn't all sand
bare-scrubbed plains, barren
soil, thorn, halting stone,
gravel shimmering ocher and drab

Dunes the color of honey wind sculpt
ruffle and flute a knife cutting side to leeward,
a hundr feet high
Tied dune reflected sound dunes, barchans, seifs
parabolic blowout dune transverse dune sigmoidal
dune sand seas' shifting shapes
(quartz mould fine as flour, powdered sugar)

Mountains with hills of their admit
on their backs, the shifting and chaotic
desert topology

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Tent lugging against the heaving waves,
they live in a curtain of sand
(wind