UPON THE ROCKS

UPON THE ROCKS

all tails laid aside,

long ago they were taught

what it is to wait.

their beauty shaped,

like the cliffs, by the

constant crash of the captured sea,

by the weight of the waves

and the weeks, carrying away

all that will no longer be

a part of their whole.

EARH

EARH

the reassurance

of muddy bones,

debased and laid

down, defending

some right, some

noble dram, left

undrunk