Wednesday 29 June 2011

Tilton Cuttings


 Jurassic Huddle

Three bivalve fossils
about 185 million years old
looking as if
just arrived from yesterday

found like litter droppings
at the cliff bottom
of a disused country
branch line cutting
All

bunched in mudstone silt
like a little nucleated
swallowed family

Poised now
between index and thumb
like a calcite question
on the long animal
and cynosure

of this hand