To poems by Alistair Paterson
from the 'song of stone' issue of island
 

THE TANTRA OF STONE

conjugate structures
foreset beds
pillow lava
thrust sheets
bounce marks
space cleavage

dip-slip faults

strike-slip faults

bun-shaped tops
cockade texture
dilatational intrusion
climbing ripples
break thrust

overthrust
synaeresis cracks
penetration deformation
fluxion structures
explosion breccia
ejected blocks
slump structure
chilled margins
re-entrant basins

 

 

KILLIN POOL

heart-shaped pool
worn out of the rock slabs
across the River Dochart

rain and spate water-full
and a feather floating

 

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