Standing Stones
Visions grow
out of our minds like vines.
We want to excavate
the bare-knuckled past
with the jaw bones
of concussed elks.
Wind and a cold moonlight
still carves them.
They are the blunt teeth
of a low wailing sky.
They are rock-hewn prayers,
works of a drowned
weight of era’s,
constructs so deeply layered now
that they are beyond the ken,
of we curious delvers.
We who stand non-plussed,
our minds twined
around these mute megaliths
feeling for any sense
of who and why?
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2019
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