Flight of the Stone Captive

Devonian birthed an innocent beach down at the delta of a river great. Compressed and oppressed by sediment weight, sand became stone hidden far from life's reach. A northern ice-angel came to impeach the cloak of silt atop the stone's pate. Leaving exposed in a fixed angry state labyrinths and crevices bred of the breach. But soon upon the sedimentary, dampened and moist facing east and north, spread verdant moss and ethereal fern. The friendlier integumentary fed roots of cherry and beech bringing forth flight that ascended to Holocene's turn. Ann Silverthorn 1995 This poem is about Panama Rocks, formed by a glacier, in upstate New York.