Heavy steel
Grasped into thine clutch
Familiar tool
Ancient use
Simple head
Steel wedge
Attached to a long handle
The maul
Breaks like thunder
Sinews of bucked timber
Flung
Upon the frozen ground
It once lived within
Collected and stacked
Awaiting.
Tag: timber
Midnight Fire (day 2267)
As a fire I torch the way
Alight into this night
Burning each timber
Aflame, aglow
Amber lays my path behind.
I take apart
Each sliver of wood
Placed into my path
Charring black
Exposing bark
I bite and lick each crack.
But as wind doth die down
As kindling wanes at the hearth
Gentle doth my folly go
Slowing each flicker
Embers glow
And midnight’s roe fares well.