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Deep Time

Remembering Summer 2007 - Heather Barnett & Will Holloway



Deep Time



Turning a mineral section in polarised light,
the minute readjustment of brass wheels,
the deepening suspicion of just how old things are,

the forest roots joined up by fungal wires,
what’s seen can be collectively recalled,
turning a mineral section in polarised light,

the little things that make the big connections,
the religious life of apes, the cure for age,
the deepening suspicion of just how old things are,

the sedimentary rock, made grain by grain,
the lesson where we’re always copying down,
turning a mineral section in polarised light,

the row of monsters gurning from their jars,
as knowledge nears but never touches truth,
the deepening suspicion of just how old things are,

the machines that are the subject of our researches
cannot be dismantled without being destroyed,
turning a mineral section in polarised light,
the deepening suspicion of just how old things are.

Will Holloway