Chimney Ruins

Clattering bricks
Tumbling, crumbling
down
to the dusty earth
Ghost of a chimney
bastion of hearth and home
shattered by time
Long used
further forgotten
overgrown
trapped in a timeless tumult
Watching over
the prairie


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