It is withdrawn.
Or has withdrawn
hidden notes
from you
and the world
but how could you know
busy with being
synthesising qualities to experience the past
which seems like it was now
that you are between a rock and a raindrop
and that as your clumsy fingers extricate
then drop
that fossilised shell
some essence of which
has waited 15 million years for this
there will be no unimagined molten core
exposed by the fresh soft-edged fragments
although a long-standing uncertainty
may have resolved
for something within
alan thomas 