Song of the Lithophyte was written in June of 1986, when I was 37 years old. A lithophyte, according to wikipedia, is ".. a type of plant that grows in or on rocks. Lithophytes feed off moss, nutrients in rain water, litter, and even their own dead tissue." The 'nuclear fire' referred to is a nuclear power plant located on the Connecticut River that has since been decommissioned, rather appropriately.
Image: Old postcard, public domain
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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." ~William Butler Yeats