Leftovers.
New bones to pick
Relics to rattle.
Constructs and constructed. Noun and verb. ©
And for what?
Gain or loss.
Reeling thought less common than pop mental floss.
In the long run, a fool’s hope
That permanent means just that.
Today is today. Now is.
Wait, that’s already fled.
Wave after wave. Endlessly timed.
An archeologist peers in marveling, “Ah, new bones to pick.”
A civilized shell game: orderly, predictable, useful, artful. Now only featured leftovers in a museum.©
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Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge 
And the word of the day is: ephemeral. 🙂
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Dust in the wind…or currents (if legendary Atlantis did exist.). Thanks for sifting out for a comment
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Very civil, legal shell game going on there…make no bones about it.
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Yep, the dino exhibit was in the other room. (We came for the mega train exhibit, but stayed for the ocean views) Thanks for gathering a comment to leave
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Huh? I’m missing something here, aren’t I? What do these shells have to do with bones? Please help a struggling literalist understand your clever abstract reasoning…
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HA! You just need more coffee!
Elegant creations once built for solid inhabited homes, now abandoned, fragile, and only items of curiosity of something gone.
(Besides isn’t is weird those shell components look so much like mammal vertebra? Those get fragile, crushed, tossed aside too.)
Nothing gold or calcium/calcium carbonate can stay.
Thanks for shelling out an comment!
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Every post you spin is a work of art, my friend.
Thank you.
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No hope to compare to the artistry of Mother Nature – all we can do is gaze and wonder. Thanks for gathering up kind words to leave
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Beautiful images. Makes me think perhaps we aren’t that far from shells, that nature is the sublime architect. Great post.
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Those are stunning images – Nature’s engineering and artistry is astonishing. Thanks for sketching out a comment
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