Layer on layer these did not grow
So much as gradually remain. Eyeless river, long
Lost, cut these spires from the chalks just so,
Left embrasures like portals for travelers in a song,
Cut turret, cut skyline
Of limestone, cut shrine
Hemmed like my margin’s line.
Tumbleweed hesitates, hooked on a cow patty’s
Crushed rose of coffee. Rock a variation on ginger.
Crow-foot clumps of purple gayfeather, aka blazing
Star, indicative of overgrazing. Little visions.
Clam, sharktooth, lily crinoid,
Ram’s-horn ammonoid—
Cliff faces that keep a lizard employed.
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