Looking For Fossils in the Sulphur River by Randall Compton

                   photo by J.S. MacLean Looking for Fossils in the Sulphur River                          Hoarded now in a tea tin on my writing desk,                          relics rattle when shaken, surviving memory’s                         blank weather, fragments carelessly denoting                          unbroken story lines scarcely extant in mind.                          I crawled for hours in channels of deep time,                         my sixth-grade mind focused on finger-sieving                          the piebald gravel screening […]

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