"debitage" really tripped me up gary. I like the rest though.
bw
James
>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: "engraved as hieroglyphs"
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:30:07 -0800
>
>"engraved as hieroglyphs"
>
>beneath the debitage from civilizations
>dead long before their gates shatter
>and markets wither in desert air
>
>hidden among brick foundations turned to dust
>petrified offal, broken carboys
>and fragments from the Book of Adam
>
>an amulet
>encrusted with the cuniforms
>of profane words
>disguised
>as holy
>
>protected from long nights
>or lost to whatever rays
>seeps through the cracks in our tomb
>
>inside
>the seeds wait
>
>11/22/02
>
>Nov Sharon Svendsen at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html Writer's
>Hood at http://www.writershood.com/ Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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