Norman Nicholson - Collected poems

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In the bones of the rock The fossils are living, Crinoid and ammonite; In the red of the rock (Sandstone and hematite) The fossils are moving, Coiling, crawling, Aching for the sea.

Norman Nicholson

It's here at last. Eyes in the know Had spotted it two years ago, A microscopic smut on film. Anxious astronomers protest: Give them a month, and they'll know just what The frozen core is made of, test The fluorescence tailing from it, Fanned out in the solar wind.

Norman Nicholson