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 © | Year Posted 2019

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