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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LULLABY FOR THE SECOND MILLENNIUM, by J. ALLYN ROSSER
First Line: From the point of view of all time
Last Line: And the rock will boil
Subject(s): Time
First Line: From the point of view of all time
Last Line: And the rock will boil
Subject(s): Time
From the point of view of all time
These recent changes signal
More a return to nature
than a departure, than degradation.
In the beginning, after all,
There was boiling rock.
Then waters arranging their bodies
Around an era of softer forms:
Lichen, grassland, swaying treetops.
Then pavement hardening
and cities, monumental.
Soon mostly rock again,
and radiant. More and more like moon.
Soon, sooner than is being thought,
There will be even more light.
The creatures will have stopped
being able to move
or be moved.
And the rock will boil.
Copyright © 2000 by The Modern Poetry Association.
This poem appears in the December 2000 issue of Poetry Magazine.
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