New Hampshire Stone Circle

 

Lifted from frankness,
Trails away the road,
Past stumps, and rock,
The shapes of past thoughts.

Slept I did, soundly,
Before the stones,
Blocked my path,
That eldritch night.

Stones in a circle,
Or nearly,
But perfect in fit,
Forgotten truth.

The moon unseen,
In tune with the stones,
Forgot to shine,
New it was, too long.

Hovering in the darkness,
Over the halo of stone,
A deeper darkness,
Then the brightness of light.

Orbs hover in that abyss,
A place to bury memories,
Or forgotten tosses,
Of sleepless nights.

And sleepless then I was,
And am now,
My gaze forever lost,
In that inky chasm.

-- Ron St. Pierre

America's Stonehenge is an archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres (120,000 m²) within the town of Salem, New Hampshire in the northeast United States.

A number of hypotheses exist as to the origin and purpose of the structures. One viewpoint is a mixture of land-use practices of local farmers in the 18th and 19th centuries and construction of structures by owner William Goodwin in the 1930s. Other claims that the site has pre-Columbian origins are usually regarded as controversial, possibly pseudoarchaeological or the result of an early-20th century hoax. Among structures at the site are standing stones that may have been erected to align with astronomical events.

The site was first dubbed Mystery Hill by William Goodwin, an insurance executive who purchased the area in 1937. This was the official name of the site until 1982, when it was renamed "America's Stonehenge", a term coined in a news article in the early 1960s, in an effort to separate it from roadside oddity sites and reinforce the idea that it is an ancient archaeological site.