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="ddd3">Sure as fossils of primordial forests and sea monsters</p><p id="acd6">fall from stratified canyons;</p><p id="ebb7">Sure as my drawer opens on a lock of hair,</p><p id="4602">On a diminutive foot and hand reverently cast in plaster.</p><p id="9576">But for the cruel erosion of time, my boy

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would surely be burying me.</p><figure id="a9ad"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Author’s photo of child’s plaster casts resting on 400 Million yr old Belemnite (squid-like) fossils</figcaption></figure></article></body>

Even Desolation

Grand Canyon photo by Gerald Baeck

There was something here before barrenness;

Sure as fossils of primordial forests and sea monsters

fall from stratified canyons;

Sure as my drawer opens on a lock of hair,

On a diminutive foot and hand reverently cast in plaster.

But for the cruel erosion of time, my boy would surely be burying me.

Author’s photo of child’s plaster casts resting on 400 Million yr old Belemnite (squid-like) fossils
Bereavement
Illumination
Poetry
Nature
Fossils
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