The Pinnacles + poem

The Pinnacles are a weird limestone forest situated near Cervantes, about two hours drive from my home.  When you walk around them they have very unusual shapes, and are almost Gothic like a parade of old souls, esp. at dusk when we took these photographs. I don't think I would have liked to stay after dark! Many have characteristics of human beings. There's Darth Vader, Astronauts, Aliens (big & small), Greek Gods, an assemblage of Monks, The Great Hulk or an Egyptian Pharaoh. The more you travel around them, the more they become people. You begin talking to them and imagine these stone monoliths like those on Easter Island. These individual rocks were not placed there by some ancient ceremony, apparently they were seashells in a deep and rich marine life. The shells were broken down into lime-rich sands that were blown inland to form high mobile dunes (Wikipedia).

The Pinnacles

You need two hours to notice them
like a parade of souls
the shape of weather

They appear like rock
shaped, perhaps placed
but are not

Some stand large
like astronauts, yet the surface
is sand, not moon dust

Sunset on a windless night
figure and shadow
line ready

as if
to march on.