by Susan J. Wurtzburg
An orange mist; the towering rocks cried, wept
liquid marmalade down their ancient faces.
Such desecration. For more than three-and-a-half thousand years,
the henge has stood strong, an important place
in the past, and for many, today.
Grey pitted sarsen stones, silent above
modern protestors, who spray orange dye
across this British site. Who are you,
puny people to destroy our heritage?
Susan J. Wurtzburg received 1st place in the Land of Enchantment Award, 2024, the Save Our Earth Award, 2024, and the Elizabeth M. Campbell Poetry Award, 2022, and was a semi-finalist in the Crab Creek Review Poetry Competition 2022, and in the Naugatuck River Review's 14th Narrative Poetry Contest, 2022. She was a Community Poet in the Spring 2023 Poetry Workshop, Westminster College, Salt Lake City. Wurtzburg is a Commissioned Artist in Sidewalk Poetry: Senses of Salt Lake City, 2024. Her poetry book, Ravenous Words, with Lisa Lucas will appear in spring, 2025.