Diane Hine (25 July 1956)

i don't see any EON (no hyphen; did you mean that?) PROTEROZOIC listed in your notes, nor do i see anything in parentheses after NEO-PROTEROZOIC. these may not be mistakes; i certainly don't know! the poem is perhaps too scientific / deep / full-of-words-i-don't-recognize for me to enjoy very much. but thanks for the offering. p.s. re a comment below.......i don't think there will be people around (not on earth anyway) in another million of years. or so the news makes things sound.

Millions of years summed up in brilliant poetic form.

fossilized microorganisms may speak thousand of words about the way that these had lived, but how are we going to keep this world out of man made danger for the people who will live in another million of years later Nice poem!

GI think Tolkien may have had Rodinia in mind when he conceived of Middle Earth - fascinating write.

Not a Precambrian rhyme in sight and yet the seeds of life germinate in a changing world. Opportunities taken and mutations capitalized against all odds in free form to imbue the essence, the unquenchable line of continuous energy which is life, transferred, troubled but delightfully sustained and indefatigable. Thankfully.