skipping stones

[the stranger]

skipping stones on an ancient
gravel pit, just passing the time,
distant sounds of magnesium
jaws chewing through rock
echo still
preserved in the depths
of ice aged form,
this is a hard place for soft people
but still they come,
skipping stones
over urgent futures
sinking into ugly pasts
laying still their present
on Ice age gravel beds.

[cameron]

This is another very nice poem Kris. Definitely up there with 'Tai Chi'.

One quibble though. Is gravel extraction machinery really made from magnesium? I thought it was quite soft??

Cameron

[the stranger]

Thanks Cameron,

I may well have got my pits muddled, I was thinking granite, ah well.