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Carved through endless millenia

Hanging valleys and finger lakes,

Kettle holes, eskers and drumlins

Are what the moving glacier makes

 

Plucking, shearing rocks from their beds

Grinding stone channels with debris

Its hard to believe such power is dying

But what can I do, what can we?

 

Vibrant and dynamic these dinosaurs

Lower limbs plastic and flowing

But melti...

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Mr Crotty

His favourite word was precipitation

Agog, we'd wait for it,

Windchill factors and average

Mean temperatures too, while once he showed us

How to make a weather station

 

He's dead now

That kind of geography extinct.

Its Climate Studies now, scaring kids,

Breathing in anxious jargon from

Melting ice caps and rising sea-levels.

Their future.

 

Slide rules rip u...

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