her curled hands numb as a tin cup
against her cheeks as icy water
runs down the over-heated skin

you stood close to the boy, bored,
looking off into the vanishing point

we stand in profile perfectly still
against the bulletin board

You kneel at the stream
to drink from your hands.

WANOKA (AP) Chimney Rock, which stood for centuries on the Oklahoma plain as a towering guide for covered wagons crossing the treacherous Cimarron River, has fallen victim to the same forces which created it. “Moisture and wind, the tools that sculpted it, reduced the eerie formation to a heap of rubble,” said Ernie Crumpler, Oklahoma University geologist.