“Alchemical Meditation” by faculty member Daniel Tobin (poetry ’90)
An excerpt from a poem faculty member Daniel Tobin (poetry ’90), published by E-Verse Radio.
Alchemical Meditation
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.
So life leaps from non-life, leaps outside the loop
of the un-living factum, the material pit,
to ride the sudden unfolding of a tide,
billions of years passing, before it snaps
into the billowing the sea-vents emit;
before it steadies, permeates, picks up speed
to surface dimly from the thrumming deeps.
[…continue reading at E-Verse Radio.]
