[syndicate] The Geological Time of Aphra Behn

[jeff harrison]

THE FEIGN'D CURTIZANS 

the Quaternary (which is further 
divided into Pleistocene epoch 
& Holocene epoch) was a period 
(the 2nd of the Cenozoic era) 

of successive ice ages, flat ice 
outside to magnify the malady w/in 
so's skies suspect calendar'd dead 

those dead, those 
seven, were ruined by lightning 

lightning, 
what of you that stuck around, 
suffer my, the 8th?, sickly steps 

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A FARCE CALL'D THE FALSE COUNT 

the Tertiary is termed the age of 
mammals. flowering plants, grasslands, 
& - deciduous trees widespread - & 
aloud softly with harvest & remorse: 
a proverb a day for their pains. tears 
misted them on, onward, in general bowed. 
ask never the day again, the Tertiary, oh 

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OROONOKO: OR, THE ROYAL SLAVE 

Cretaceous: thunderous lizards ruled 
the land, the skies, the seas; 

thus, obedience. thus, writing 
rescues theory, the skies, seas, 

insects, crocodiles, 
& tortoises 
continued to evolve 

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POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS 

Jurassic with brambles anew, birds 
first appeared. dominant: cycads, 
conifers. more than a fair share 
of ammonites, brachiopods, bivalves. 

thus let the crown hold; pierced 
is every fetter with Virginia's limbs 

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THE YOUNG KING: OR, THE MISTAKE 

the Triassic is termed "Portrait: 
Headless, with Mirror" when, as 
in night, mammals & giant marine 
reptiles are bent to black & grey, 

hideous, forlorn. 

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THE EMPEROR OF THE MOON 

1223 1443 5226 
5446 7889 7449 

108811 10121211 
138814 13121214 

15161617 15121217 
18161619 18202019 

{Palaeozoic} 21161622 
{crimson,} {that channel} 

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THE CITY HEIRESS 

quoth the Ordovician 
("age of graptolites" 
is analogue of "tempting") 
period "Am Dust", was Foil'd, Was it 

Go Down, Star (Ordovician; far), the day's 
Up, Closer Sun: this lyric, graptolite else, 
is another Good Samaritan of the Dawns 

 		
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