Smooth white crystaline she
blocked on a hillcrest
against ashen clouds
Embers smolder on the plain—
a charred lust-ruin
Smokepillars slant
over brown rock
bulbous earth
Cattle, sheep
nibblesnipshufflenuzzle grass
A shifty breeze topples
the brown pillars
and herds push uphill
A grizzled, steel-wool goat
sniffs the base of the column
licks her foot
W D Burns
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