Bare Bones

The skeleton lies desolate

some bits and pieces

of its living

still discernible

in the bare 

hot red desert.

But each day it decays 

wind and rain weather it

destroying its form 

and substance 

until it wastes away

and fades into the landscape.

If it had come to rest further south or north

it may have sunk into boggy peat moss

and risen with hair and hide intact with,

the cause of death discernible with

its last meal of grass or rabbit

still there inside its stomach

its regularity

preserved 

by nature.

Preserved or wasted.

It all depends on

where you 

fall.

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