Ammonite Ide Crawford
Ammonite
Dizzying hair’s breadth height
This tiny swirl of time,
Seen like a shadow
In the dead grey rock
Rock split
In two halves
The dry tight curl
A stir of lost life.
The change from flesh to stone
Has made one speck of being
The skein of all the fallen years
Wound up
‘Ammonite’ was a winning poem in the 2019 Newcastle Young People’s Poetry Competition.