Water Erodes Poem by Joe Rosochacki

As dawn from the East the solar light cast shadows
Upon the stark, barren, apparent lifeless desert on the surface below
Like so many times before and ago
And as mantle plates collide over the aethenosphere
Up the atmosphere thermal pressures
Collide making rain,

water erodes.

And minerals from the earth paint the desert landscape,
Purples, greens, and ferric oranges,
Martians do not the vista that I hold,

water erodes.

Dried riverbeds one million or so many years ago
Not to mention the one only and proud chain of mountains, the Ozarks.
The first, though not horrific,
'Rocky Mountain Picture Show' as it was several millions years ago,
only to be transformed in to bumps in topographical terrain,

water erodes.

The phallic symbols that were the peaks are rendered impotent,
The celestial Cialis and Nirvana Viagra would not help.
And I saw canyons as several hundreds of layer of sedimentary rock expressed the thousands of
millenia which gets its’ form from river and wind,

water erodes.

So as it goes, the only dynamic earth is constant change.
And what do you think? Earth is 75% WATER.
At 31,000 feet I looked down as earth geological history,

water erodes,

At 35,000 feet, the depth of Mariana Trench,
holds the truth yet to be discovered,
below the surface.

(5/2/2006)