in this
archaeology of self -
she separates dirt from stone
& bronze-age tools, deposited
in childhood,
seeking foundations, that base
from which her ruin grew -
she towered when she was young,
before she'd read of Babel
& it's
fall
[ long before her own ]
she chuckles at that irony: how she's
digging herself up, before
that other burial
waiting
at her end ...
Honorable winner
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