dollhouse homes

of the city 

cling to the granite surface of

PreCambrian rocks

evergreens grow out of

crevasses, colour rocks

like green splotches

on an artist’s palette

gold metal-sided

headframe looms along

the Perimeter, ghost

silhouette arising in fog

smokestack surrounded

by smelter, zinc plant,  

concrete authority

dominates the landscape

rock reflections,

upside down houses

reversed in the dusky

waters of Ross Lake

copyright 2008 by G. Walker-Hobbs. This poem may be not reproduced without written permission from the author.