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crabs wait

in each abandoned shell

for human ears

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frantic sand crabs

she digs them up to watch

them disappear

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the perils of mastication 1: crab people


next time
peel these suckers
before you make the dough
their exoskeletons
don't go down good

Ghost crabs toss their balls away

See the little hole near the left side of the image? That's the crab's burrow, which it was cleaning out after a storm (Tropical Storm Isidore).