Jake's Flea Market

agricola the saxon
as a silhouette against the top of the morning
strolls in a rut furrowed   across the forehead
of the country away from glauchau

observes how the land faced toward daylight
sod fleshed here and   there skinned
with barley crop   wrinkles
down into the lines on the face in which
in april a creek swells   or
a stream or river flows between the waterside sycamores

he wonders   through the layers of rock
of which this earthwrapped skull is formed
wonders through   into the hollow oven at the core
where stands in the fireglow   the brimstone throne where sits
the brain of the universe

as agricola meditates on the thoughts of the devil   study
the landscape an old man faces toward you

[1] Georgius Agricola (/əˈɡrɪkələ/; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in the mining and refining of metals. He was the first to drop the Arabic definite article al-, exclusively writing chymia and chymista in describing activity that we today would characterize as chemical or alchemical, giving chemistry its modern name.^[1][2][3] For his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium published in 1546, he is generally referred to as the Father of Mineralogy and the founder of geology as a scientific discipline.^{[2][3]    -Wikipedia}