anacuamic

.
at times it seems
more
natural to crawl
or float, slide slowly
on an horizontal plane, as if
anything else along the way
is
more
approachable
other creatures, easier
to talk to, touch, or tell words
very quietly
gravity
no longer pulling
the spine curves outwards
inwards, like child’s pose
sideways,
as lizzards on arid ground
what used to be the floor of a lake
about 4 million years ago
exactly when the first bipeds were already walking and standing
a new axis stabilizing
calibrating
they called them hominin
australopithecus anamensis
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what time is it now
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foreign bodies,
moving along the axis

foreign bodies ii

foreign bodies iii

what used to be the bottom of a sea, to acknoledge the passing of millennia 🌪

a cold evening at the end of january last year, the sun that just went down, the light becoming a translucid grey, in the numbing wind and a couple of mountain goats staring at us from a few cliffs away. for just a couple of seconds. i laid down here and imagined fish swimming above.

el torcal, one of the most impressive karst landscapes in europe. you are looking at shells and marine animals skeletons that formed the bottom of a marine corridor extending from the gulf of càdiz to alicante, between what is today the atlantic and the mediterranean sea, about 150million years ago.

much later, already transformed into limestone, these sediments started emerging, continously shaped by the weather. still in the process of changing its form as you keep looking at it 🪨

“This was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels that created numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now-extinct marine reptiles, ammonites, and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land. The world was ice free, and forests extended to the poles. During this time, new groups of mammals and birds appeared. During the Early Cretaceous, flowering plants appeared and began to rapidly diversify, becoming the dominant group of plants across the Earth by the end of the Cretaceous, coincident with the decline and extinction of previously widespread gymnosperm groups.“

“The Cretaceous lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago, and was first defined by Belgian geologist Jean d'Omalius d'Halloy as the Terrain Crétacé, named for the extensive beds of chalk (calcium carbonate deposited by the shells of marine invertebrates, principally coccoliths), found in the upper Cretaceous of Western Europe.”

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