* Throughout December, I am reposting some of the more ‘popular’ poems and articles that have appeared on my blog over the past year. Here are two more short poems.*

Stack

The soft limestone is worn away by acid,

as uplifted igneous rock resists,

bridging coastal tides.

Thinned by wind and rain,

it collapses under its own levity and gravity,

leaving us an off-shore stack of granite—

an imagined castle,

noble and lost.

A Little Metaphysical Haiku

The astronomical clock

the laws of physics do not obey

ticks down to an apocalypse

none can foresee.