City stone
Wed to ageless cliff
Battered rock
Jutting granite scabs under slabs
Safely placed behind
Towers engineered for murder
Scarred relic by the sea
Skull set fast a bony thing
Scales both blind and anchor fixed
Sacred gemstone of the shore
Sacrum fused by wind and time
Scale and shale armored prize
Life teams
In wind swept cracks
Sand stiff like oats cut neat
Blue and blue alive the water
Cloud and break
A thunder deep
Joshua Hughes
8.11.2012