ASH TO CLAY: Myths in the Debris

III. VOICES FROM THE RUBBLE

	Dig your hands deeply into history's slag-heaps!
	Sift through scorched dreams shorn of shine,
	as you navigate the darker, explore invisible sands of time.

	Among the wreckage, rusted gears congeal
	with chromium rods resting in  graves of steel—
	lean in and listen: lost gods still speak,
	their mechanical murmurs low and bleak.

	From ancient ruins, strange futures time, 
	as bone-dust and embers still rule—
	today's decay is tomorrow's vogue,
	gleaming in time's cesspool.

	From jaded juniper, gilded swans arise,
	shapes forged and formed beneath fractured skies.
	From splintered stone, or ash and clay,
	bright phoenixes bloom and blaze away!


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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Archaeologists sifting through industrial and mechanical ruins, 
         finding that decay and wreckage become raw material for new myths and reborn icons, 
         symbolized by a phoenix rising from ash and clay.
KEYWORDS: civilization ruins, social decay, mytho-poetry, industrial wreckage, 
          phoenix metaphors, cultural artifacts

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2011 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2026 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

> Note: This piece was partially generated with AI tools for styling and ideation; human editing was then applied.

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ESPAÑOL   https://www.tnewfields.info/es/ceniza-arcilla3.htm
NIHONGO   https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/hai-nendo3.htm 
ZHŌNGWÉN  https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/cong-huijin3.htm