Tuesday, August 2, 2011

This Is All Miles Away

I remember the vast

the night that could unlid the ocean, sky

hinged by the hurricane dike,

the old fort.
Three cannons, time took one, left

the others without iron
for decades. Behind it you climb the field overrun by stones ingrown in stillness

maybe thrown and
falllen from a great distance, discs arranged

like hanoi towers
inlaid shallowly, or

suggesting ribcage,
burden carried, life

spent towering
then death,
but then

so do the years.

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