Astride
the Cabot
fault,
one leg upon the ocean one leg
upon the westward drifting continent,
to build out of sound the wall
of a city,
the earth
rushing westward 2’
each 100
years, 300 years past
500 years
since Cabot, stretching
the Ocean, the earth
going NNW, course due
W from north of the
Azores, St Martin’s
Land,
the division
increasing yet the waters
of the Atlantic
lap the shore, the history
of the nation rushing to melt
in the Mongolian ice, to arrive
at Frances Rose-Troup Land, novoye
Sibersky
slovo,
the Wall
to arise from the river, the Diorite Stone
to be lopped off the Left Shoulder
7 years & you cld carry cinders in yr hand
for what the country was worth broken
on the body