10/31/2000:
SAT-Practice Word of the
Day:falter
Intermediate Word of the
Day: a
jot or a tittle
Difficult Word of the Day:ort
Four
HalloweenStories!
AT
OLDUVAI GORGE
When
the grey skull is loosened from the rock,
And
all the bare, humiliated bone
Is
spread out like the workings of a clock,
The
secrets which it kept are still its own.
The
passions of the dangerous, brief day
Furrowed
the brow but left no lasting mark.
The
terrors of the night were sloughed away
And
vanished in an even vaster dark.
Whatever
brought the creature to this place—
Anger
or lust or fear or simple need—
Is
not recorded on the fleshless face
Which
stares unblinking from the desert weed.
Time
sighs a moment in the hollowed head
But
speaks no good, no evil, of the dead.
