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\"sphinx\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

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PERSPECTIVE<\/h1>\n

Beneath this topography she sees:<\/h2>\n

sandstones shaped by wind and wave,<\/h2>\n

azurites blue and malachites green;<\/h2>\n

fossils, remnants of another age,<\/h2>\n

present her with an insight<\/h2>\n

to a record no longer extant:<\/h2>\n

the dinosaur, the trilobite<\/h2>\n

some footprints, an exotic plant.<\/h2>\n

These granites primordial –<\/h2>\n

crystalline intrusions –<\/h2>\n

now weathered to reveal<\/h2>\n

our igneous conclusions.<\/h2>\n

World-weary, she rests on pillow-basalt,<\/h2>\n

has paleo-dreams in the limestone vault<\/h2>\n

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Dubliner Maeve O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s work has been widely published and anthologised for twenty years. Her collections \u00a0poetry (Vocal Chords, 2014), are from Alba Publishing. www.twitter.com\/maeveos – See more at: https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/poetry-maeve-osullivan\/#sthash.l4HX8bE6.dpuf<\/p>\n

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