A Little Room (Redux)

Here's the edited version of a piece I posted a while ago. Thanks all, for your feedback, especially Remoulade. If the capitalization of each line bugs you, know that the auto-correct feature of Word is stronger than I. Finding a new, non-machine gun style...



A Little Room



The glory of a desert sky at night

Is open road,

And if a man looks up from any ravine

Near El Paso, its stone walls

Will be nothing

To the vault of wide open space above,

And each star seen is another world of sky.

It is for its sky

That the desert is home to wandering men.



If you are tired one night,

If you would rest,

Stand in the grass of a southern savannah.

You will find it a little room with cloudy walls.

Perhaps a star will peek in at you

Through a cirrus window,

And if the clouds be place higher than the moon,

A gentle lamp will be turned on.

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