“Melting permafrost in the icy north of Siberia is revealing a veritable graveyard of frozen prehistoric animals” – Carly Cassella, “A Freakishly Well-Preserved Woolly Rhino Was Plucked From Siberia’s Melting Tundra,” Science Alert, January 2nd, 2021.
Methane mists,
Mammoth corpses,
Sunken humps of peat.
Flocculence frost-bitten,
Compressed intestines,
Seeds and roots within;
Submerged diorama
Sloughing
Off
The tons of many years.
Earth is blinking,
Grit and bones
Picked out.
Past as gelid prism,
Frozen oracle bones.
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