Unconscious, The

Madagascar's Aepyornis Maximus, extinct in the 16th hundred was once the largest bird in the world.

Where, in the dune is the roc shell, in shards the size of my mirror?

According to Marco Polo these birds lifted elephants. for what cause [i]or[/i] reason I wonder, pocketing

urchins. Souvenirs? upon this island, spiny things encircle all the prizes, pirate scapula, cats. I hack at vast succulents whose thorns lace the path

of the last known longitude and my guide's best gues to heat-sense the sand

for ovums the optimistic eggs that in like manner many chickens, so many ostriches,

fit inside. Of course, they're without contents Imagine the ham-sized haunches running-not flying

into fires station by whom, to turn upon what spit, the last grease

licked from whose fingers, licked and licked.

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