Kimberlites

Diamonds are forged many miles down, then, after formation, are carried to the surface by volcanic action and shot into kimberlites by these high pressures. Lodged in this diamond pipe they are enabled to be found. Vannoccio Biringuccio thought gold mines a kind of kimberlite that took the shape of the roots of trees. In terms of the human forging of these, they are made of unspeakable memories like those of POW's and released prisoners, deep, deep things, but then we wake from sleep. This depth is sensed in the Book of Caermarthen and in those catalogues of the fallen, "whose grave is this, this one and this, ask me I know them," where the exile does not show his heart to one who asks, that is to "I and my frank round our cauldron."

When the diamond tubes are forgot, and the sparking jewels depth, mining around descents brings them out. Look for them and you come upon buds and stalks pressing against an intent face. "Oh who is an ocean to bathe the worlds sores in?" The versions below were bound copies saved by my father when they occurred, put away with letters in the order given. He signed his name on the title pages!

-A Calendar of Poems / Encouragements for Such as Shall Have Intention to be Undertakers in the Planting of the New Found Land / Set Forth With Divers Reasons and Inducements. 1974.
-Restorations of the Golden Age in New World Discoveries. 1975. 144p. Chapter I: The Loss of the Golden Age.

-Twenty Photographs of the Risen Dead. 1982. 120 p.-The Roundness of Bellyheart's Bearing, 1982. 97p. (condensed version)-The Story That's Never Been Told. 1982.

-Songs of Ariel College, 1982. 47p.

-The Taliesin Poems, 1982. 80p.

-Native Texans. Some Medicinal, Social and Philosophic Contexts of the Plants of Texas and the Southwest.1984. 133p.

-A Poetical Reading of the Psalms of David. 1985. 196p.

-PL3:HSTBIS - Planet Three: Help Send This Book Into Space. 1986. 208p.

-Stories for Children. 1986. Elsie's Marley's Tale of Cats. 1988. A Whale Tale of Dolphy. 1994. The Adventures of People and Heater. 1995. Cloud Boy. 1995. The New Earth of Char Beamish. 1997.

-Chang Pomes. 1994.

-A Tulip Blooms From the Heart: Some Lives and Letters. 2004. 135p.

-The Way into the Flowering Heart. 2005, 203p.

The personal connects with the giant forces and pressures earth reflects because the father is like the diamond pipe that stores the stone. Formed from pressures 250 miles down it is delivered fine by fire. Creation reifies material from abstraction. Memory goes back and down to touch the veins, Dante in kimberlite, Milton orbiting, fallopian tubes of birth and death, wind sprout collectives of life, veins above, with mitochondrial relation of individual to the collective beneath. Once pressure forms the diamond, lava places it above. Head down in the mining, one arm to hold the rope as a foot presses against the rim, roped to the surface, hung upside down the vein, the other hand with a hammer chips the side. Communities built of kimberlites, families and tribes are forged from earth that kimberlites connect.

"Diamonds form at a depth greater than 93 miles (150 kilometers) beneath the earth's surface. After their formation, diamonds are carried to the surface of the earth by volcanic activity. As this molten mixture of magma (molten rock), minerals, rock fragments, and diamonds approaches the earth's surface it begins to form an underground structure (pipe) that is shaped like a champagne-flute."