stop motion

granitic rocks comprise the basolith
up-thrust in basin-range orogeny
an age before our first creation myth
divided dry Land from chaotic Sea
James Hutton glimpsed Deep Time and wrote a book
"no vestige of Beginning" stamped the rocks
that wear to dust, subduct and then recook
composing a geologist's rough clocks
we lack perspective to perceive the dance
like telling decades by the second-hand
it all seems static to our fleeting glance
that--played out over time--is passing grand
whole mountain ranges fall, to rise again
but just play dead throughout the lives of men