late day sunlight fires the yellow temple top while shadows harden
Late Day Sun [Haiku]
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granite bubbled out of the jungle, and - upon it - they built a temple its walls were anchored into stone until its walls were the hill, and the hill was its walls and no one could find one true point at which one ended & the other began was it built to be closer to the heavens, or further from hell? not by people for whom heaven & hell reside in the mind -- unattainable by velocity, inescapable by distance -- constant traveling companions only confronted head-on maybe they wanted it to feel permanent, knowing even that granite would crumble in due time

a field of flames
dance in rows of butter lamps
in the dark temple

rounding the temple,
heard: faintly squeaking wheels;
seen: not a soul