ROCK AND ROLL

Sandstone giants creep downhill

Imperceptibly at will

Littering the valley floor,

Weighing half-a-ton or more.

Monsters float with silent grace,

Falling from their lofty place.

Would not wish to be on hand

When goliaths finally land.

Marie Elena

Photo by Marie Elena Good

Note:  This is a true phenomenon in Conkle’s Hollow Nature Preserve of the Hocking Hills of Ohio.  Sandstone rocks, weighing in the tons, detach from the bedrock wall of 200-feet, and slide absolutely imperceptibly downhill to the floor of the gorge.  The rock in the photo above is one such “Slump block.”