Diamond Craters, by Vonda N. McIntyre
Written by Vonda N. McIntyre   

A Poem

Diamond Crater -- Photo by Vonda N. McIntyre

Photo by Vonda N. McIntyre


Diamond Craters

The lava-bomb eater
Nibbles delicately at the red basalt,
Crunches through the skin to the center,
And savors the obsidian core. 
Those black ones taste good,
Melting to runny glass,
But the shakers dissolve deliciously
When the ancient sediments
And fossil bones
Touch the tongue.

 

— Vonda N. McIntyre
Malheur Field Station

 

 

 

Copyright © 1993 by Vonda N. McIntyre
First published in the Newsletter of the Alabama Geological Society, Vol. 6, No 2, Spring 1993. Ed. David Kopaska-Merkel


 
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