Sonoran desert sacred, hot breathed scorch of footsteps, blood red sands sun bleached bones and skulls this wash a hallowed holy ghost an unnerving place of hiss and fire molten sun to dry the water a drowning fever of prickly sweat last night the Yaqui man you met undulatingΒ in a purification ceremony lashing energy cords cut he is laughing like coyote, wild eyed green the velvet desert peyote awakened you have come to understand a universe within a fleck of sand.