Out of Mind

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  Assynt by Mehmet Kartay

I’m too imaginationless to think

Antarctic rock came traveling underneath

Lost continents and oceans here to sink

More deep than granite and then peaks bequeath

To Assynt is beyond my brain.  First off,

I never conjured northwest Scotland’s heft

Of gneiss in torture or its stone made trough

For coldest blue of Assynt, loch long left

Before a human mind or any mind

Conceived it.  Deepest rock now at a height

Antarctic pole could never have designed

Is married to a western Scottish bight.

  This movement shoved it through the tropic zone

    In far-flung eons, timelessness unknown.

~ Phillip Whidden