A Karstic

1.
Tell me your anodyne ways.  My heart,
all day, gnawed on.  Hobbes.
Find your mumble      hinging
 
Less on plot.
Buff   cretaceous
Karst.
 
Karst-land [see BLIND
Etched and eroded
Lost all semblance of normal
 
A chaos of pits, flutes, runnels           In the past 
too much emphasis on solution and on associated collapse
 
of passages.      Upland of exposed carboniferous limestone    
 
2.
while milkless and childless before you I stand.
 
Is ca bhfuil mo locht nach dtoghfai me roimpi?

3.
corruption of
 
boireann:  barren, stony          Rich with fertile
rock        rainwater seeps & spills into grikes between clints
cavernous karst fenster     cascades into sinkhole     swallowed 
by turlough deposited with white marl    under dense sward 
 
of a rare sky-violet, across the shallow silverweed; 
at the marsh creeps mint, pond-weed, buttercups, knotgrass.  Tumble
of rocks, black with bracken, where water-fleas and fairy-shrimp spawn. 
Lacy fan-shaped leaflets on maidenhair spring on shady,

forms loose hummocks, deeply cut, dark, turns crimson near the roost 
of horseshoe bats that emit echolocation calls; 
yellow meadow ants suckle on honeydew from root aphids 
 
4.
Grief is a process of disassembly
 
Deforming the given.
 
97% of our DNA looks like gibberish
The dark matter of inner
 
Shirr
Shim
Shake and 
salt
Yoke     tell me
of gold and gem
which clothe the barren-grounds
Bang on the blue 
Rise and flap in gutters
O heap o’shirrels an’ peat-mow
how precious the deadness