Silent Libretto for the lost
Silurian Ammonites, sea urchins. Then there were starfish and corals the Rheic ocean Serpentine. Mullion cliff and Coverack The buckling and the earth shattering collision Heaving the Amantle REQUIEM to the surface Faulting, fracturing The fault of the lizard
Hold your
You can’t feel it, but the ground is moving.
Breath
Where is the mantle of the earth.
You’re already standing on it
across generations
A legacy
Molten and erupting, surfacing, breaking
Once molten. Brecciated, dark green and crystalline and stamped With gold lichen
Where’s the surface?
A gully cut in serpentine picked out by the sea
Bodies
Working through Linked to the sea.
Freighted
careful where you’re treading. Watch your step.
Surfaced breath Breathing
Loss
of living
The harshness of life for working class people.
Meniscus