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Harbinger: A Journal of Art & Literature | 2018-2019

Published by Texas Tech University

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A HERMIT PRAYED

AND A GOD ANSWERED HIM

Tyler Seale

Way, way down in the red, red sands

You’ll find a small and barren stream

Where serpents writhe and spiders dance

And buzzards go to chat and dream

Way, way West on the wild, wild breeze

How many prayers are carried there?

The mesa hears, the sunset sees,

But no one answers, no god dares

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Way, way deep in the small, small grains

You’ll discover worlds you’ve yet to know

Where shackled men throw off their chains

Where hells and heavens heave and groan

Way, way out on the flat, flat earth

Where little grows and death is near

I’ve built my home and tend my hearth

No longer slave to pain and fear

Way, way down in the red, red sands

I look around and come to see

Some forgotten god’s forsaken land

Has given life again to me

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