Thank you to Editor Sand Pilarski of Piker Press for publishing this poem.

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Beautiful Ruin  Within peeling walls, where spiders and specters now dwell, and hold court with the dust, they alone remain as the non-derelict guardians and holders of this history. No more to hold the roof aloft than time itself. A roof crushed under the weight of leaves and detritus, outside would-be invaders who threaten to force entry and destroy the sanctity of broken glass and tiles. This grand deconstruction, splendid in its disrepair. "Beautiful Ruin" was previously published in Volume 48, Spring, 2016 in The Broad River Review Literary Magazine. Article © Linda Imbler. All rights reserved. Published on 2018-04-02 Image(s) are public domain.