Tuesday, December 12, 2023

A Fragment of Machinery in the Road - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

A Fragment of Machinery in the Road

 


Part of a specialty clamp in asphalt trapped

Like a primeval animal, jaws apart

A mechanical protest locked in place

When steaming pitch was rolled upon the road

 

The seasons pass and footsteps pass, leaves fall

But nothing changes for those frozen in place

By the decrees of stasis and stagnancy

Progress blocked by torpidity and time

 

The seasons pass, my daily footsteps pass

A fragment of machinery in the road

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