One might suggest
your efforts were in vain
to drag ten tonnes of
sarsen stone across an open plain,
then raise it as a rough-hewn sign.
What was the point,
and was it worth the cost?
Perhaps we'll never know.
The cipher has been lost,
and few remain who care.
Or is your message
confident and clear?
Mere megalithic idiom
to say that you were here.
Once.
John Walter Taylor
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12 April 2025
