“Alchemical Meditation” by Daniel Tobin

A poem by faculty member Daniel Tobin appears at Plume Poetry:

It abides in secret on my pencil tip—
Greenland graphite, fossil bodies, the spans
of lost beginnings hoarded from the deeps
into softest stone across geologic time
to bring its word here for the wind to edit,
dawn quickened in folds of a stringent pool.

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