Archaeology

     What a curious fossil,
          stumbled over this morning
          as I write. 

     A fragment of my childhood’s
          Appalachian Ohio
          dialect.

     I read the passage and then
          copied it out,
          uncovering
          the extra “r”

     in “earthern vessels.”

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Image source:

“Earthen vessel, Sanyasi Hill, Salem, India,” by Yercaud-elango, (5/31/2017) [CC BY-SA 4.0 – Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons].