Laurence Overmire - Sand Castles

That which be
Through long and tearful hours create
Is, in an instant

Utterly destroyed

The fatal washing of ungodly hands
No print, no foot, gone
With the tide, away.


(Previously published in Some Words: A Place For Poetry, Nov-Dec 1999)

Laurence Overmire

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