An aboriginal Horseshoe Crab in an oceans' childhood puddle,
Measured its species' millennia of daybreak--tracing itself
Back, before time began--
Book lungs of arthropod covered with a relief map of pre-hominid
Fingerprints, marking each breath with a motif of anonymous
Mass signatures--
Overlapping faceless spirals, recording time like age rings on
A sawed off cross section of redwood tree stump.
Blue blood Limulus, royally surviving earthly extinctions of
Fauna ephemera, surpassing all competitors with unchanging
form--
Priapic Telson shooting skyward; phallic tail mating with Princess
Polaris, begetting north star children of jellyfish, plankton and sharks.
