Pickled Fœtus in the Museum
 

in the silence of the exhibits

a deeper silence    as deep as the silence of

                                                            stone jars

a face    a curiously confused face

with eyes    primate eyes

limbs entwined

flesh

            fluid           

                        silence

entombed

in a glass jar

words in the mirror

evol

hollow the knock of stone jars

absent ashes that filled them

diminutive interruptions of silence

diminishing chords

star dust

lament

as a sigh

EVOL

            a star map

moons of Jupiter

systems of planets

& a wandering star

lonely   isolated

a soul

apart

with primate eyes

eyes of a seer

copyright © Dick Russell 2014

an earlier version published in Wolfprints

Workshop Poets Series 1971

London, UK.