prehistoric Utah sandbar

wall of rocky flesh
frozen memory
molded ages before
my awe-filled eyes
gaze drink imagine...

your hollow eyes
consider my feeble frailty
here soon gone

tower of mass in motion
acceleration slowed by nothing
trees your toothpicks
framed eternally massive
by lush green then
carbon black now
foliage
to bless this day for me

I bow my head for you
reptile royalty
majestic ageless ancient

your tomorrows locked in rock