FISSURE

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Then I sensed a quiet influence settling
into those depths in me that had been rocked
and pitifully troubled all night long
And as a survivor gasping on the sand
turns his head back to study in a daze
the dangerous combers, so my mind
Turned back, although it was reeling forward,
back to inspect a pass that had proved fatal
heretofore to everyone who entered.
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from Dante' s Inferno: Canto 1, lines 19-27
translation: Seamus Heaney, Dante's Inferno Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets, edited by Daniel Halpern, The Ecco Press, NY 1993, pg. 3.

TERRAIN

FISSURE

CREVASSE

FOSSIL

LACCOLITH

PINNACLE