Like Water into Insanity

Approaching from a distance

one knows immediately

it is a place

of importance transactions

calls onward to them

off that flat featureless plain

with its numbing monotony

of their day in

day out

loneliness

night in

night out fear

where undoubtedly

travelers of sporadic caravans

find comfort

in its shade

fresh water spring artichokes

and it is said

that statues line their routes

so they will not slip away

between

those grains of sand

underfoot

like water into insanity.