“At this particular place, what you’re seeing, essentially, is the process that had widened that valley over the last [glacial period]. … What you’re seeing is a landscape still recovering from glaciations. It’s a 15,000-year hangover."
***Geologist on the Washington mudslides
O Mother Earth,
you still remember
how the ice cut you
and never forgot
the rape of your trees
while ignoring
the houses of the
recent arrivals.
Did you feel the
small tremor
from
the False Pass fault
coming through
your saturated limbs
that
triggered you to
abandon your
show of strength
and
caused you to be
fully separated
from your weaknesses.
