Mikaela Castledine #11 Marta Reads History

Marta reads history
she says
at her age
it keeps her mind sharp

but her conversation
is pure geomorphology
lava rocks on the coastline
quartz seams
pushing up through the sediment

she belongs to a walking group
she says
they had a geologist

she indicates with a wide sweep
which encompasses
the whole coast
the movement of the tectonic plates
the breaking up of Gondwana

which leads us to think
she is both older
and has walked further
than we might have first imagined