am horizon pleated. ancient
ridge ribboned & rippled
skyward.
am skittish footed. am pickaxe
struck & ringing.
am wind raked
subject to microseismic shift.
am under pressure,
packed.
what body would bend its back
to such sediment, such hard resistance?
one made now rubble fond,
ruin collector. one rockscape
self-cemented, back turned to fertile
fields, long abandoned. unworthy
coward to their call.