Three geologic figures, each accompanied by the text of the poem. Figure 1: Rocks have a vocabulary, a different alphabet, I remember how amazed I was to discover that in learning to read the literary timbre of this science how much time there was I really majored in history. Rocks are books. They tell you the events that took place at the time they forrmed and Then they tell you what happened later on. Figure 2: still , No one has ever seen mountains bloom into ranges and No one has ever seen the glossy alfalfa - Love of a mother starling it appears to be a useful framework - just because No one has ever seen it does not mean it cannot exist Figure 3: A toast! We live with both abundance and speculation The depths of time- in process , in motion - like a symbol of our own eternity. Whatever is also was, and ever again shall be ! Beneath the diagram is a heading: FIGURE 21.1.5 anybody can plainly see that The summit of Mt. Everest is marine Page 520 EASTERN HEMISPHERE
The geologic figures are sourced from the textbook, Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics by Ben A. van der Pluijm and Stephen Marshak (1955). The found text is sourced from Annals of the Former World by John Mcphee (1998).

Emma Wu is a writer and activist from Houston, Texas. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University-Camden. She was a Posse Foundation Scholar, Mellon Mays Research Fellow, and received the 2018 Katharine Fullerton Gerould Award for Excellence in Writing at Bryn Mawr College. She has attended writing residencies including Wildacres Retreat, Art Farm Nebraska, and Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. Her fiction can be found in Blue Mesa Review. She is currently a Post-MFA Research Fellow at George Washington University and lives in Philadelphia with her partner and kitty.