- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Fault Field Foray
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Click hereI study my map enhanced with GIS.
There’s flowers and corpses in rows, I see them
Straight scarp, manmade, but no sign of the fault.
The fault must be near, how could I miss
Trend and location clear in the DEM.
Across the fence I see a slope, but doubt
Unsure, we on to next spot on my map,
Going with my student son and fair femme
I see a small dip and come to a halt
Abandoned house falling apart, its roof a gap
Break Fault
Field studies of active surface faults in Houston. The abbreviations are commonly said as a word, rather than spelled out:
DEM – Digital Elevation Model – grid of surface elevations
GIS – Geographic Information Systems - software and data for mapping etc.
- COMMENTS
Anonymousalmost 15 years agoYou may be another Long Fellow for all I know, but don't quit your day job.
UnderYourSpellalmost 15 years agoI read the explanation, which didn't mean a lot to me although I got the gist, before I read the poem so I first read it with a technical meaning. Then I went back and read the poem again from an artistic point of view which I found preferable although I must say please take out the capital letters at the beginning of the lines and it will read far more smoothly.
Amyfriendalmost 15 years agoI think. But thank goodness we have "No-Fault Insurance" in Canada.
bflagsstalmost 15 years agobut even with the explanations of your abbreviations i still don't know what any of that stuff means, which makes the poem inedible. I usually like and understand your poems, this one not so much.
vrosej10almost 15 years agoIn spite of the technically language, I loved this poem. Different subject matter. Must be the day for it.
