jagged meandering crevices
jutting through pavement
once permanent, now
another fleeting folly
web of cracks branching,
blue veining alive in
cement slice of cheese
instigating, the liquid
poured and drizzled and
caught and frozen
tapping fingers on oval
puddles, canyons created
by wintry reveling and
late freezing kisses
oval puddles blinking
with each drop, puddles
feeding creeping courses
through concrete cliffs
each drop its duty
to steal away the land's
booty in flooding flows
and out to salty sea
long the lick of earthy
skin for mineral spit
and muddy blood
yet slippery hooks have
will to carry any stones
that sit and tarry
wider and deeper and
more the cracks grow as
pavement yields its youth,
as earthen flesh grows old
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