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Foolhardy Masonry ()



Foolhardy Masonry

Commencing to pull brambles and weeds
in the rocky spanse of a New Hampshire back yard
An ancient, yet half-baked thought obtrudes in the mind
as the granite pokes at ones feet

"Why not make of the rubble a wall, as ancestors did?"
At once to demarcate the property
and celebrate the subjugation of the wilderness
a low slung monument to imagined dominion

Neath each briar stalk and knotted clump of weed
lurks rock of indeterminate size--pebble, stone, boulder...
The Brother will swear he once dug a trench
'til realizing he'd struck a primordial ledge

Flat, round, smooth, jagged, mossy, dirt-crusted, muddy
at first they interlock and stack easily enough
the biggest left for later
the flattest quickly laid
At times a rhythym takes
Yank thistle, pry rock, toss aside
the growing pile can't rebuke if ignored

But soon enough they must be moved
hoisted up and wrestled each into its place
the pause for weedwork
paid by a prolonged sentence of stone throwing

The pleasant seeming patrimony
devolves to Corinthian drudgery
as the barricade snakes slowly along
a yardsman's whim too late thought better of

Humbling thought: they farmed this land


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Grade: (F)


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This probably isn't the worst poem I've ever read...I think.

- Hank

- Apr-20-2008, 15:13

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