Ideas and Art of Loren Eiseley

Lost Unforgettable Seas

2016-04-29 by darkviolin

I, in the desert, the first of those deserts which will later

engulf the whole earth, gaze westward at Venus, hazily thinking

how, in Time’s future, the people in cities clustering

our dying ice cap

will yearn from a myriad housetops

toward that silver embodiment

of green woods, and the lost, unforgettable seas.

–Loren Eiseley from “Star Cycles,” in All the Night Wings (first published in Southwest Review in 1931)

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