Size Writes

The tips of the fingers. Old nails.
The church, the steeple. The opened door,
the people. A roadmap, the corrections.
The constructions. A foothill. A burial mound.
Terminal, lateral, Rogen, de Geer.
The unfurling flag in a fog of breath.
Advances and retreats. Alpine and glacial,
washboard, recessional. The process is known
by what is left behind. We know what it was
by what was left behind. We know what it was.