Ode to a
Fossilised Mayfly
Mesh-wings sandstone-pressed,
Twin tails hair-curled,
Body laid flat,
Segmented, mineralised,
Lived, bred and died in one short day,
Ephemeral,
And lasting a hundred million years.
Crinoid
Silurian sea-lily,
Stem of stacked stone coins,
Discs mill-edged,
Tentacles caught and flower-pressed,
Proto-Doric fallen columns,
Rock-red segments tumble,
And remain,
Slowly sediment-laid.
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