Fractured fossils

of a time

hurled upon red shores

amid soured bones

and ember light

sunless dawns wan in the fray.

Jagged imprints

of frenzied sculpting

surveil with a tortured glare.

Sardonic murmurs

ripple and rise

as mortiferous man

grinds ancient wonders

into anamorphic shards

to await a fiery dungeon.