go to Elephant Country – prospector’s axiom
(1983)

My bosses find a new Money Man, lease an old mine down the road and invite me along. I scramble up and down a dusty, sun-baked pit, mapping, sampling, learning at the site that launched a boom as the Civil War brewed. First assays come back promising. Targets abound.

          Isolated by nobility
          gold and silver boil in broken stone
          settle among fools

Mike Meyers is a retired geologist who lives in western New York with his bride of forty-three years, two loony golden doodles and a poodle puppy.