temperatures dropped and
the glaciers grew
their fingers of ice
encroaching further and further
where glacier met stone
they fought and they battled
the ice triumphant
grinding the other to dust (2)
They brought with them erratics (3)
boulders carried great distances
which were allowed to wander
with the help of the ice
compositionally different to
the stone of the area
left behind to confuse (4)
when the glacier retreated
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- Glacial geomorphology – the study of the landscape, processes and features of glaciers
- this fine sediment is known as glacial milk or rock flour
- erratic – from the Latin errare meaning “to wander”: a rock often strikingly different to that of the local geology
- the presence of erratics were hard to explain, often attributed to ancient great floods, until scientists of the later 18th and 19th centuries made the connection to glaciers.
Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #110 – Glacial | word count 67 – 1 word over! Sigh…
Sammi Cox 
You did well to squeeze an entire ice age into 67 words. And I like how you’ve included footnotes for those less informed of such things.:)
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Thank you, Crispina. Though it’s funny how I couldn’t stick to the word count that I set. I had to be so selective about what to include because there is just so much to the subject. Perhaps the poem should have been called, “A very brief glimpse at a fraction of what makes up the subject of glacial geomorphology”? Catchy, don’t you think? 😉
I was unsure whether to include the footnotes or not, so I’m glad you mentioned it, and it a positive way too 🙂
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I think that’s an excellent title!
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🙂
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