Sunday, December 10, 2017

121017d


The stones lie


The stones lie, naked,
spread wide in beds whose coverlets
are years. Sand lies with shale, shale with
lime, and many years later
gives birth to that which is dead.
ammonite, trilobite, placoderm,
they all live under glass
and fluorescent lights; fourth graders
escape No Child Left
Behind and leave their schools
behind and soon they grow,
leave their homes
behind, marry and leave their lives
behind where acids burn
their bones, but a few live again
under glass after sleeping with
sand, shale, and lime
for a few million years.

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