in this green cwm

in this green cwm 

layers of time laid along a day’s walk

holograms ~ if you will ~ contoured and

burnishing every facet of the past

as tenuousness as time itself

they merge to produce a feeling of 

being in and out phase with these halted stations 

as brevity is noted along the longevity of thought

here we are adding our footsteps

a wisp of cool conversation mingled with

the voices of the past  even if conjured up

for who will walk this way in future years

ask that  and imagine the past asking that 

as they personify our elation when

with our hands upon these memorial stones

we commune with the humanity 

of times immemorial

as our learned guide 

nods our bemusement to rest 

quietly here in the shade

beneath these monumental trees