Things are, understandably, a bit busy for me at the moment. But a number of inter-flat hunt coffee breaks have given me the chance to scribble a couple of contributions to the haiku meme started by suvrat.
Have drill, will travel
The young geologist sighs,
Switching homes once more
Paleomagic.
A black box that very few
Choose to peer inside.
Many others have also revealed their hidden poetic depths:
Julia
Kim
Bryan
Geotripper
Silver Fox
Short Geologist
A Life-Long Scholar
Lockwood

Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.


Comments
I like both of those - glad you had the time to write them!
Best wishes on the flat-hunting thing.
Posted by: Silver Fox | November 15, 2008 9:03 AM
A body decays;
Sediment accumulates;
A fossil is born!
Posted by: Rob Clack | December 2, 2008 9:15 AM
Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick. Surprise!
Posted by: Rob Clack | December 2, 2008 9:28 AM
In what sense, Rob? Sounds like a perfectly good haiku to me...
Posted by: Chris Rowan | December 2, 2008 11:51 AM