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Desert Starlight
Raven
Coyote
Lizard
Rock
... nuggets from a dry outpost
on a water planet
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With Our Stone Mouths
In the deep rivers winding under mountains
Where the earth splits,
Where hot stones roll and bubble
In the stunning dyes of sunrise too vivid
For eyes opened under the dim star that glows,
That flickers through mist pounded tree-high,
Sprayed to the sky by the slow, sturdy feet of glaciers
Far from the roar of rocky birthing,
Far from the furnace door
Spreading water, spreading stone
Across this groaning planet,
Burns a jewel, forms a gem at the joint
Of the boulders that form the joint
Of our lives. We intersect here.
We join knowing that the rock will crack,
Knowing that after endless cycles
An end will come at last a time will come
When the fracture born when the sun was bright
Will yield and send us tumbling
Down frozen slopes,
Across unused, crumbling roads,
To rest apart in separate canyons.
We will cry stone tears.
We will dream of our home in the mountain
When we were the mountain.
We will call our former names with our stone mouths.
Tom Vernier
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace --- Danton
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