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It begins with dense life still dripping

Salts in the atmosphere cause everything to prune

A habitat unprepared as water is absorbed

Signal to divide, the call of realization

Where no water fountains, the split is fully dried

Space occupied by a vortex of dust...

Ersatz!

Credit the night and day!

Night falls and bestows insect fixation

Luminescence above the basin plain and block

Sense guidance through cold obsession

Hostile articulation attacks like a sulfurous draft

Filaments diverge in desert air

Particulate dissolves with a fractal progression

Plateau pressed against the sky

I can see the end of all the creatures I know