Make-up Mirror

The desert sees
itself through
many eyes: 

mice eyes, hummingbird eyes,
ground squirrel, lizard and
tarantula  eyes.

It knows itself
so perfectly from 
every point of view.

 Not just a make-up mirror, rear view
But, from below the ground 
as a bug sees it.

And from a red-tailed hawk
banking steeply
into a wild, pencil-thin thermal, 

wings buffeted 
as it spirals down 
and takes it in.