From the point of view of all time These recent changes signal More a return to nature than a departure, than degradation. In the beginning, after all, There was boiling rock. Then waters arranging their bodies Around an era of softer forms: Lichen, grassland, swaying treetops. Then pavement hardening and cities, monumental. Soon mostly rock again, and radiant. More and more like moon. Soon, sooner than is being thought, There will be even more light. The creatures will have stopped being able to move or be moved. And the rock will boil. Copyright © 2000 by The Modern Poetry Association. This poem appears in the December 2000 issue of @3Poetry@1 Magazine. http://www.poetrymagazine.ord | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SYMPATHY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE LAMP OF LIFE by AMY LOWELL MANHATTAN, 1609 by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: THE VERDICT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS VICTOR RAFOLSKI ON ART by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |