Bottled Time

Collectors, traveling from far,
Dig in ashes piled behind
The weather-whitened, ghost-town bar:
Whiskey bottles there to find.

A hundred years have come to pass:
Cowboys—gamblers—girls—all dead.
Half-buried legacies of glass
Gleam beneath the rotting shed.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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August 7, 2009 at 4:20 PM
interesting poem and subject
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