It could be far worse, Patrick: yesterday I was being shown some mud mounds
of fossilised algae. In Derbyshire. Imagine that for a fate.
best
dave
On 2 July 2011 16:12, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I sometimes feel that I am -'bunched in mudstone silt' in Raynes Park or is
> it the medication??
> P mudstoned
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 29 June 2011 17:29
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> Subject: Jurassic Snap
>
> * Jurassic Huddle*
>
>
> Three bivalve fossils
>
> about 185 million years old
>
> looking as if
>
> just arrived from yesterday
>
>
> found like litter droppings
>
> at the cliff bottom
>
> of a disused country
>
> branch line cutting
>
> All
>
>
> bunched in mudstone silt
>
> like a little nucleated
>
> swallowed family
>
>
> Poised now
>
> between index and thumb
>
> like a calcite question
>
> on the long animal
>
> and cynosure
>
>
> of this hand
>
>
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
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http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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