Lineation

Words from an unquiet mind on an unquiet earth.

Lineation

words written in eco-grief

Unearthed
We grapple rocks
Loosening
Along worn paths.

Sky-eyes
Cast, kite-high
Over mountainous thresholds
Crowned with a quiet cloud.

Earth-heart
Molten, soft-core
Under hard layers
Ceded in folded maps.

Galactic-mind
Fusing, rapt-riven
Cosmic boulders
Exploding in silence.

Distractions to ignore
The depth of rock pools
Hidden in stratus hugs. 

Beneath these hills
This earth shakes and tenses
Riles at itself
For being so moved. 
Shuddering shoulders
Cracking, crumpling.
The burden of bearing
Such heavy stone. 

Natural forces
Quaking and converging 
Fissured and frozen
Forging and folding
Cross-cutting fault after fault
Strained and buckling
In this fractured physics
Of push and pull. 

So bare and raw are we
In this slow earthflow.

We dare and dream
Discover geodes
Chambered deep.
Classify, identify.
Intellectualising
Chaotic intersections.

Laid deep in layers
Those rules and laws
Marked and measured
By the absolutes of dating.
We will not shift
Such deep-drawn lines. 

Boundaries to hold us
As we traverse
Exposed on ridge edges
With tumbling shards and scree
Rolling down the face.