Fins/ Wings/ Limbs

The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder

                                            Charles Darwin

Outstretched wings of bats in flight

translucent

the spinning tails of bacteria

motors for comets and thoughts

choanaoflagellates

in a scoop of pondwater

flitting with electric grace

making and sharing proteins

my head

the front tip of a sea squirt

my beautiful imperfect eye

with its blind spot

clocking the light

like a ragworm