Below The Fort

Below the fort skeletons washed at night. Eyeless and hollowed eyed yet looking as with eyes the night dark and moon light passed through their hollow eyes they moved little but of their will for as in a sweet hummock lay on those low waters the waters of the night below the fort where stayed they. as the night deepened one by one sometimes group by group stood up and marched from sea to land: you would hear their bony feet divide those salt waters clean and clear and bright. then up on the land they as in a drill set up in marching order marched at shout of the major one a band ordered and a band organized and one by one into the heavens high amidst the rare clouds at those height disappeared they. the Dawn rose up and lighted by the fort. Waters clear and pebbles that rolled yet remained from the last night.[