Planetary Stories Project
"To Act Globally, Think Locally – Through Stories"
Black Earth Institute
Place: Mammoth Cave, KY, USA
Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant
By Annie Finch
Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant
In the night to my humanness
the unparticled has poured,
no beam will sink or angle,
no slow new mineral drip
through the circling ceiling
(loud strength of a darkness
only dark can reassure
(solid cavern's holding,
to hollow the beautiful
carrying dark to hold me,
to empty the slippery
(The loud strength of a darkness
only dark can reassure,
(solid cavern's holding,
No beam will sink or angle,
open cavern's holding,
in the rock to my humanness
unparticled and poured
to hollow the beautiful
(Into no circumference.
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