Sunday 12 February 2012

The Erratic Boulder by Maureen Kingston

uprooted
by force

rode the icy
wave

of the
Laurentide

to a valley

eons from
its home.

A gray
outcrop

cast alone

a geologic
poet

among
the desert’s

smiling
sandstone.


Maureen Kingston, NE, USA

2 comments:

Crafty Green Poet said...

Maureen Kingson lives and works in eastern Nebraska. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Caduceus, The Centrigugal Eye, Pirene's Fountain, Poetry Quarterly, Red River Review and The Smoking Poet.

Patent Attorney said...

I like the line breaks, they work very well indeed. The pauses between the lines emphasise the ideas of loneliness and timelessness, the spaces between the outcrop, the sandstone.