quaternary alluvium – sunrise in a small city

hampstead hill

sands flooded and heaped
when the water recedes
green and mottle
in light sky
before it returns

patterson park at sunrise — (the western side of patterson park is a hill of sand deposited by a flood more than 65 million years ago)

for now

grenville
taconic and acadian
allegheny
hills rise in waves from mirovia
tethys
rheic and iapetus and atlantic.
alluvium settles.
every waters edge shimmers for now
from always

inner harbor at sunrise — (the inner harbor is at the western edge of a coastal plain of sediments that began accumulating 145 million years ago, in a river valley back-flooded by the atlantic ocean)