Nevada National Security Site
It’s the billowing
salt column blocking
the heavens that
seems as if
a painter god
globbed a little
too much white
on a brush
and lobbed its
fury with brutish
art into the
wide desert air
leaving a skeleton
cairn growling from
an empty canvas
Tyler Thier is the Honors Thesis Advisor for Pace University. He writes and teaches about a lot of grim stuff, but otherwise he’s a goofy, short, bald man who likes frogs and carnivorous plants.
The Marbled Sigh 