Rock City Marvels

Moss covered angular rocks jut from the earth,
bathed in sunlight, dwarfed by a tower of sandstone.
At times, the trail seems like a walk down 5th Avenue,
along towering facades housing mice on treadmills,
not solid and staid like these monolithic masses.

Man’s shadow leaves no trail of perpetuity
like Earth’s birth canal, pushing out carved
mountains that at once terrify and mystify
shrunken people who can only photograph
these marvels and feel small and insignificant.

Thousands of years from this moment,
these monuments will still be waiting,
watching to see which human will document
their existence or blow them into piles of sand
from a place beyond our myopic imagination.

© Joanne Cherefko 2023