Mantle Publication Draft 1

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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


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