Taken Pebble
quartz-laced pebbles,
to and fro.
another bully waves leaves wet bruises.
oh, how they shine!
the slow bleed of stubborn minerals
doesn’t care. won’t distinguish
the gradual and murderous
from a windowsill.
taken, then,
from comber to trinket.
perched close to a desk,
hobnobbing now with fossils
and a cross-barred venus.
once harried and fretted,
now a staid ornament.
embossed over steady seasons
with all-too-human dust.
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This is excellent and reminds me of a pebble I picked from a beach many years ago on an island I've not visited since, which I more recently feel i should just put back where it came from....
ReplyDeleteYes! I don't know! We humans are such short-lived ego-filled centers. I have some fossils here, so .. linking to my orbit specific beings that lived millions of years ago.
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