The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Geological Time

The desert is full.
It’s full of ancient,
slow moving things,
and the random lightning strikes
born of fiery youth,
which crash against the rocks
laying bare the millennia,
while screaming in a timeless echo,
You have no freakin’ idea!