The oil drill rig is
so rusted its steel plates look like lace curtain: eaten away by salt air and wind-driven sand.
The derrick, collapsed
and toppled into the sand. Nearby, hyena
and jackal tracks head away into the desert.
Why did they come here? Where do
they go?
Abandoned diamond
mine: Remains of a jetty or pipeline
juts out into the sea. T-shaped
pillars. Cormorants sit drying their wings. It pollutes the empty vastness of the desert beach.
Yet, slowly, the desert and the sea are breaking it down. Claiming it.
Sand covers it and rust erodes it.
One day, it may all be covered or broken or gone.
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