On the whole I like this one very much.
I find 'by hard hands formed' a bit odd.
bw
SallyE
on 29/8/03 6:59 pm, Colin dewar at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Eruption
>
> Pink thrift and tormentil and bonsai oak,
> lichens like old hair or yellow as pollen fronds
> colour the costal crags above the high tide mark:
> the volcanic outcrop with its stubbled growth.
> Below water non-stick weed slips like soap
> on the seaward side. Such plants
> grow slowly on battered rock
> whose rifts are deep and ridges keen,
> poor anchorage for root and supple stem.
>
> This rock was molten once,
> from earth's hot heart expelled
> through duct and tunnel,
> by hard hands formed,
> its bright heat coerced and cooled to new stone
> and now ossified for ever
> the moment when it rose from the vent,
> the pained gesture immortalised,
> like music from earlier time
> over and over for any who listen,
> to a well known refrain.
>
>
> Colin
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