Extinction Coefficient

may damsel horse dragon
flat though exact
whose intended usage
untraced Neolithic fauna
baffles the salamander

the fly lowers herself
where green might gather
amphibian skulls appear
bookworms fade

light grows again
night mummified
scattered among icy
touch-me-not

flown now or
fooled by perception
into being false
she to bleed
he to sleep and read

the music of the animals
primitive mosses whose surviving
circles of chalk
draw us out