Saturday, March 6, 2010

Earthquake Valentine #1

In a field where numbers

trump any kind of intuition

yet when she folds her

arms in tightly to her body

she spins faster and when

you remove the load

the land springs up farther

and farther away from

the center of the earth

everybody knows someone

who died in the rubble

the little shore creatures

in states of decomposing

he saw the sea can’t fall

so the shore must rise

finding fossils on limestone

mountain-tops built up

slowly from sea floors.

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