Untitled - Campbell University

Sediments
The long land’s solid solace sought,
through which no gulping reservoir could leak—
helpless before the rush of time’s angry gush
if wild water made the world’s oldest mountains weak.
But the handy sandstone we used as sidewalk chalk
inscribed a ubiquitous tan tale, buoy-bleak,
of a vast ocean floor on which we rated
a mere carbon-carrying black streak.
—Martha Owens
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