Friday, July 19, 2019

Geosonnet 57

A black extrusive, collared for a crime
Won't flow, or run, or put up any fight.
When faced with doing geologic time,
Repeat offenders recognize their plight.
The good cop gives LIP service to concern
"We know you've had these outbursts in the past."
Bad cop cuts in, "A poisoner's return:
The mercury's more widespread than the last."
They double down- he's in the hot spot now,
"The plankton and the magnetite are slain
Effusive toxic volitiles are how
We know biotic crash occurred again."
   Defiantly, he scans the gloomy sky
   Where shines his cometary alibi.

Geology 44 171

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Friday, July 12, 2019

Geosonnet 56



White walkers turn the maple leaf to ice
A glacial edifice, three miles in height
Continuous, and ringed by edelweiss?
Or intermittent, phasing like a wight?
The sediment’ry basin, Hudson Bay
Has hollows which survived the glacial scours
So forty thousand years ago, they say,
The land had beaches, forest, meadow flowers.
A verdant corridor split west and east
The Hudson Bay was then an inland sea
Migration route for plankton, grass, or beast?
For many thousand years it was ice free.
   The Night King’s kingdom melted, split in two
   But when the Ice age deepened, it regrew.




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