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skyscrapers
are the best artificial reefs
the new glass corals

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Even this tiny snail's perfect fossil shell

Who put these reefs

shouldering out from road-side cliffs

dripping with corals

not seen alive for 300 million years

put them there to fool us

trick us into thinking

the world is an old old place?

The very same person

who built the whole shebang

from nothing, nothing at all

and loves us dearly

though, never speaking to us

or showing his face

is a funny way to show it

A fossil reef

A solid mass of finger shaped fossil corals composing a reef, Devonian of upstate New York. The reef is the size of a small hill; this is a very small part of it.

psychedelia

Into the coral forest, armed with quartz and weapons-grade dolomite!