Wouldn't You Know Poem by Douglas Scotney
Wouldn't You Know
When it came
to providing
a general name
for a flat-topped undersea mountain,
aquamesa was tried
(from a language of old):
subaquamesa; mermesa; marinamesa too.
None took hold.
Nor would anyone cop
subaquatabletop.
The look of a word
being unlike its sound
is super-rife in English,
so wouldn't you know,
after a Swiss-born American geologist,
they named the mount a guyot.
There's a mountain on the N.Carolina-Tennessee border named after him too.
mesa - from the Latin for table
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5/9/2024 5:18:28 PM # 1.0.0.1119
A very nice composition... thanks for sharing! !