Granite by Nancy Kuhl - Lost Rocks (31)

Stories about Granite / One story is time beyond / comprehension. The end. // There is something called / a melt; it has a plot: beginning, // middle, and the last of it. / And the fever when it forms. // Solid parentrock and / percolation along margins. // See how it takes a shine. / The end, the end, the end. Nancy Kuhl is a poet and Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. She is author of full-length poetry collections including Suspend (2010) and Pine to Sound (2015), as well as the chapbooks In the Arbor (1997), winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize, Little Winter Theater (2011), and The Birds of the Year (2016). Kuhl is co-editor, with Richard Deming, of Phylum Press, publisher of poetry pamphlets and chapbooks.