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Antarctic soil

drinks the summer sun

35-million-year night has ended

on exhumed bones lianas creep

a polar wonderland

 

the burning deserts of Brazil

of Kansas, Paris, Vietnam

the seas steam

possible Miocene spicule

Possible spicule, from lacustrine or marginal marine strata, Miocene of Mississippi, from what is sometimes called the Hattiesburg Formation (http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=MSMIph;0). Any expert or knowledgeable suggestions as to what it is?

The verdict is in: almost certainly a plant trichome. This is a hair or modified hair on a leaf or stem.