The Maynard
Fall 2018

Poetic Outcrops
(from Geology of Nova Scotia, by Martha Hickman Hild & Sandra Barr)

1. Ingonish Wharf

‘Trained eye’: beach, good
          book. (Bashō—lakes &
                    mountains, under

brush...) ‘Nation’: public con-
          venience! (‘Nova Scotia’—
                    clean slate?) ‘Still

young’: graded, exam-
          ined... (Lab, holy
                    see?) Blake, ‘over

time, volcanic chains…’ The
          world’s fall
                    against the

pound


2. Green Cove

The overfisher-
          king. (Textbook
                    children.) White

Point—hand of
          God? (Rock wind-
                    ows.) ‘Post-

War’: living remains...(
          ‘Canada’—Mother
                    complex?) The

mind brooking the
          Ocean. Kluskap—
                    crystal

ashes?


3. Grande Falaise

‘Stone’s-throw’: 375
          million years...(Black-
                    board—chalk

cliff.) ‘Sky above’: the fall-
          en gods... (Scree
                    jazz.) Science

illustrated: headland,
          arrows... (Faust: saw
                    eyes.) The great

bald ego. (‘Nature’: Thought’s
          squeeze...) Hiro-
                    shima? After

math