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Friday 5 July 2019

Burley Moor's Primeval Rocks



These rocks change slowly. Imperceptibly.
Each god-like millennial glance
Perceives but a ripple
Of their sacred, slow motion.
Rocks frozen at 300 million years.
Frozen - stone dead.
A jigsaw of rock upon rock -
As first seen, in a revelation,
By nature’s most basic eye.
Some hang free, unhinged,
But solid to sight.
Rocks of curve, fold and trench.
And sandstone, that yellow flesh
Under the grey skin,
Which still flashed sharply
In retort to the sun.

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