Like Stonehenge
Meredith Davies Hadaway

Like Stonehenge

Every sentence aligned
to permit a glimpse of the longest
 
day, allow a breeze to blow between
the syllables, hold

the future in fierce syntax,
towering prophecies, heavy

with mystery, fluent
as melting ice.

Meredith Davies Hadaway

is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Small Craft Warning, a collaborative volume with artist Marcy Dunn Ramsey. Her previous collection, At the Narrows, was winner of the Delmarva Book Prize. She is currently the Sophie Kerr Poet-in-Residence at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.