Mushrooms fossilized into rock, Steps a mountain’s spine Compressed into a path Between two points, a pillar of salt Some disobedient harridan Transformed into, or a dinosaur Tail twisting from calcium deposits Footprints of those who came before.
The album opens onto a plateau Glaciers had hidden for eons Until heat radiated all water away; Embedded snails long extinct, Now exposed as hieroglyphic Tracings of words as things, Suggest a trajectory across But fail to enlighten the burden Carted by elephants over the Alps.
Forlorn as saffron hair let down Braided into rope, what’s human Evaporates through that cracked Shell in the sky, and seas rise, Filling in all scissors of earth, Reconfiguring the coastline From a face to a jigsaw puzzle, A tar pit that buckles highways, Where saxifrage cracks a hairline.
Discarded
ReplyDeleteMushrooms fossilized into rock,
Steps a mountain’s spine
Compressed into a path
Between two points, a pillar of salt
Some disobedient harridan
Transformed into, or a dinosaur
Tail twisting from calcium deposits
Footprints of those who came before.
The album opens onto a plateau
Glaciers had hidden for eons
Until heat radiated all water away;
Embedded snails long extinct,
Now exposed as hieroglyphic
Tracings of words as things,
Suggest a trajectory across
But fail to enlighten the burden
Carted by elephants over the Alps.
Forlorn as saffron hair let down
Braided into rope, what’s human
Evaporates through that cracked
Shell in the sky, and seas rise,
Filling in all scissors of earth,
Reconfiguring the coastline
From a face to a jigsaw puzzle,
A tar pit that buckles highways,
Where saxifrage cracks a hairline.
[Disposable Poem November 25, 2009]
Dr. Mike