Monday, March 5, 2012

Ahab's ghost

Beached far inland
ribs turned awry
ivory replaced by rust
skin by tin
and broken windows.
Steel mills left cold,
fires plunged into lost seas
(or at least great lakes).
River bottoms scattered
with carcasses, bones
of truss and failed frame.
The species not extinct,
but the survivors
are small & swift.

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