watching the old deer’s
skull dissolve back
into the forest,
look how much longer
a thought may linger –
how much longer
than i thought.

and this flying insect at rest
looks like a small bit
of leaf or bark –
on long legs –
runs errands in
a square foot of forest floor –
stops at the
alder leaf, the salmon berry
twig, a small piece of moss,
this old thinking skull,
and her vertebrae
in orbit.

Skull - by Monte Merrick

Contributions this episode from Ray Swinn, Vittoria Lyon, Steven Cline, Hazel Cline, James Foster, Toni Crisci, Priscilla Smith, and Raelixe Cassettte

Cover Art: Mechanical Materialism According to Oswyn Peckham by Tan Tolga Demirci

Editing and production by James Robert Foster

Mumbling Planet is a production of the Atlanta Surrealist Group. Find more of our work, including poetry, art, essays, and surrealist games at https://houseofmysticum.wordpress.com/. Find more from the international surrealist movement at https://peculiarmormyrid.com.