Eight-line Poems

Fusion

Fusion

The marriage of opposites.
like a pewter plate stood upright
on a wooden window sill.
the weight of five hundred years
pressing it into the grain
until, caught fast in fusion,
wood and pewter as one,
it stands immovable today.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.16.21
Prompt: Fusion.
Note: In a 16th Century house in England, in a window, there is a pewter plate that leans against the glass, its rim resting on the wooden sill. Time has forced its weight deep into the grain of the wood so that it is now locked within the sill. Plate and sill can no longer be separated. It is the most unlikely example of fusion that I have ever seen.