A Day in Pompeii

A DAY IN POMPEII

Broken glass

Shattered dreams

Rolling lava

Fire springs,

Life is precious

Dust and sand

Reclaim the bones

To make new land.

Pottery shards

& poetic lines of Sappho

Stand alone

Outside of time

Without flow,

Rename the pieces found

Like Sudoku,

Jigsaw puzzles, and riddles.

Gaping holes where knowledge once huddled,

Slipping

Like sand into the ocean,

Free from form – now muddled

Muddied, muted,

Shadow-ghosts of forgotten memories

Played out in a line, or

A small chunk of limestone or marble,

Just a day in Pompeii.