Here in this redolent rain, droplets saturate the ground
I watch the clouds move on, and then once more the sun to come
this sparkling desert strewn with tiny diamond stones
the air hangs in petrichor, thick with chaparral
birds drink from puddles formed in the broad agave leaves
rainwater trickles with steam in the sun of the singing trees
songs of doves coo cooing in the desert mesquite
spiny lizards stop for rest and warmth upon the rocks
they are ancient, tiny dinosaurs with rounded teeth
for eating flashing bugs and beetles
here beneath the spindly ocotillo
the pale flowered saguaro, that blooms
amid this wild ocean of sandy seas
of cool nights and hot breathed days
the way the desert breathes.