Standing Stones
Why do giant standing stones draw us nearer them?
once we have noticed them standing between two worlds
a lintel above them they baulk our progress
won’t let us see what they guard
not a landscape but some secret long forgotten
how important a secret we do not know
wind & water hone the stone
acid rain
dew bathing old wounds
where sandstone was cut from the north facing crags
beyond Hadrian’s Wall in the borderlands
drystone walls dividing small fields
a spring on the hillside
metallic tasting water
keeping grass lush
with its steady flow
silence
then a curlew’s cry
Dick Russell © Richard M Russell
2025
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