Tibesti...

I came across this work by the poet Jean Mambrino, a contemporary of T.S. Eliot, in a book entitiled Call of the Desert: The Sahara. I like it and thought I would post it...

Tibesti

Black gardens
on the sand in flames
on the gold of the sky and sand
feed the darkness
the palm trees

. . .
Even the springs
are black
in the fire of the sand and sky
like the bodies of women
under their veils of night.