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Honorable Mention
Stone Sorcerer
Gregory Fell

He sits like sediment and strives unseen
with the patience of ages to petrify wood. Alone

among elemental mages he devotes his craft
to the creation of permanent art. Blind

to all above the firmament, with hands gnarled
by age he mixes sands with water. Into mud

pies he plies the bones of beasts and bakes
them deep within the crust. The fossil-moulds

he leaves for men to find when dust is all that’s left
behind of flesh and blood. Broad shoulders bare

the marks and scars of boulders cut by glacier
ice. Trace the ore in beating veins to rock

hewn jaw that’s grim in form and scowls
at malice long ignored. Grimace and despondent

groan erupt from cragged maw. In vengeance
many times before he’d torn and quaked the earth.

He gestures with a knotted claw – the tremor strikes.

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