Ammonite Ide Crawford

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.