blocks of rubble
corners & edges eroded round
bas reliefs dulled
adorned by jagged cracks
once the Earth’s most massive city
in its day London was a hamlet
thriving,
dying,
swallowed
infinitely patient arboreal adversaries
claimed the light
drilling down into cracks
making chasms
to set roots
strangler figs, literally,
strangled
figureheads
[National Poetry Month: Poem #8]
By B Gourley in Cambodia, nature, poem, Poetry, Thailand on April 5, 2017.
