“Geological Time” by Nora Delaney

from Dark Sky Magazine

Black walnut, green ash, and silver maple
stipple the ridge of the river. It cedes,
gradually, to the shore — no shoring up
the riparian zone with riprap, rock
armour, shot rock; no finger in the dike.

The sentinel trees dream of limestone caves:
silica, flint, silt, chert, clay, sand, calcite –
stone scored with more than human history.
. . .

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Nora Delaney is a poet, translator, and an editor at The Pen and Anvil Press. Her work has appeared in The Critical Flame, Jacket, Little Star, and elsewhere. She is currently working toward her doctorate at the Editorial Institute of Boston University.