Sequential Art

Sedimentation is a short comic based on the homonymous poem by Dr. Adeene Denton. Sedimentation was originally published in the Consilience Journal in the following format:

I like the way the Earth erodes
The way mountains shrivel
and valleys fill
The way great river boulders
become curved and smooth
And sediment settles
quietly
to the seafloor
Wish I could fill the holes in my life like that
Let my hollows brim
with rainwater
and my scars grow covered
with moss
Grind my memories into sand dunes
and let them
drift
Abrade me like a streambed stone
Pluck off my edges
I will crumble
Like the rocks do
And emerge as something new

The comic was published in the August 2024 issue of Patchwork: A Comics Zine.