Polite
“Sand Dunes Thawing on Mars,” Astronomy Picture of the Day on March 3, 2008. Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA.
The polite
architecture
of these sand dunes
too formal
and removed
for a desert
always in danger
of slipping
at the angle of repose
into something
familiar.
tychogirl 
always in danger
of slipping
at the angle of repose
into something