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neck coupled albatrosses

un-flighted cormorants among the crabs

sedate breaststroke lagoon turtles

night time spectral prowler sharks

rock-hopping diver penguins

clambering, clod

heroic monument tortoises

iguanas land and marine

in their thermometer bodies

of mottle-leather skin

and

un-dinner table sneezing salt

and amid these origins of species,

across ranger white-marked trails

across silver forests

across black roped lava

across 500-species of shrub and plant

across volcano pools

ascend

rock formations

serrated cliff-faces

weather and wind chiseled ledges

whorls, folds, wrinkles

high cathedral vaults of Nature

playfields of pottered cinder

stilled spurts of fire-stream

messaged pebble, boulder, stone

live thesaurus petrification

vocabularies of Spain fade –

San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Baltran, Isabela

and other Encantadas

vocabularies of England fade –

buccaneer Ambrose Cowley

Darwin Research Station

Lonesome George

vocabularies of Melville and Vonnegut fade

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vocabularies of cruise and tour fade