Empty Quarter (Rub’ al Khali)

 

by Alexander Jorgensen

 

 

 

 

 

 

wadi wadi wadi

raml

 

raml raml

wadi raml

 

jebel jebel jebel

raml

 

raml raml

wadi raml

 

raml raml wadi raml

jebel

 

                    raml

 

 

 

 

 

 

dry riverbed dry riverbed dry riverbed

sand

 

sand sand

dry riverbed sand

 

mountain mountain mountain

sand

 

sand sand

dry riverbed sand

 

sand sand dry riverbed sand

mountain

 

                    sand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander Jorgensen is a writer, visual artist, educator, and

adventurer.  His work appears or is forthcoming in Diagram, Drunken Boat, Red Lightbulbs, Otoliths, The Last Vispo Anthology and The Return of  Kral Majales: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010.  A selection of his visual poems were exhibited at the 2011 Text Festival.  He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008.