TALKING TO THE STONES I am living before you dissolve my laziness will keep me here while your still energy carries you forward what ages you've seen what pastures floods and forests what deep sea bottom woke you and how much you must know of what changes and barely changes listen I too have my minerals my calcium take me forward you will live longer than life if life ever ends time keeps us all close in her arms one which is before the other after do I speak too poetically a false rapture no I think this is your language I mutter on the edge of my sleep which is like your waking