This well of stone

I sit in this well of stone

of limestone silence, circling

and semicircling around me

I sit on a narrow ledge

convenient for sitting

preferably in silence

the empty sky is loud

above me

It is a sculpture I sit within,

a cocoon of stone of two rooms

one a single space

with a turret, entered

by bending low before

standing up again, a bow

of obeisance.

Two rooms, two thresholds

within a threshold, one

equipped with a back entrance

an escape, unexpected

Photographs: The permanent art installation “Threshold” by Roger Feldman, Laity Lodge near Leakey, Texas.