Before, During and After Dating

Antiquity
before carbon dating:
embryonic fossil gas heating
          icebergs' jaws;
Kilimanjaro's lava meandering
          nature's oxbows;
Pangaea's quartz, rock, sediment,
          tributaries undergoing volcanic
                                                  waves;
xylem yielding zeugen.

~ Susan Katz, submitted 06-27-01