Stonehenge

Older than Windsor? Must be headed to Stonehenge. How can something look and feel exactly as you expect it to, and at the same moment be surprising? For one thing, I never noticed or read about the mortise-and-tenon construction that made sense to me and yet astounded me. If you do not understand these words, look at the bump atop one of the vertical stones that has no cross stone on it. That bump was formed, made to fit snugly into a hole in the cross piece that was once up there.

To consider the age of this sundial/monument/whatever else it might have been truly reformulates the word "awesome" to my vocabulary. On the next post, we will look at what a "henge" is.

OLD IS RELATIVE

After the revelation of age seen at the Tower of London, just three days past,
Seeing Windsor Castle, just as old and also owned by William the Conqueror,
Underlines the newness of everything American, especially me.
Driving west and south from Windsor, though, changes it all again
As the two-lane road forks, we bear right, we park, we walk under the
Road, we come up the path face-to-face with the stone enigma
Called Stonehenge, surrounded by people and all alone, thirty to fifty
Centuries old in the windy cold summer sun.