The Former Gardener of Loosmann Tabith

In the deep of an obscure grove
stood a metallic statue,
skeletal form of fish
standing on it's tail,
ten feet top to bottom
spine, ribs and fins,
rusted heavily.

Over the decades,
the work has sunk bit by bit
into the soft rich earth on which it rests.
At present, the pedestal is gone,
and the work is all but 5 feet buried,
which leads one to think, that at this rate
it will eventually be a bench on which to sit,

the skeletal head and teeth exposed.


that makes one wonder,
if at this rate of burial,
might not the work be reduced to a bench,
on which to sit on the skeleton's teeth?