The story of long ago
Expressing erasure and acknowledging that the layers of life, of each generation, of each slow movement of the earth’s crust, of each evolution of us, obscures the strata upon which it all grew. The rivers and continents of life continually move while we humans tinker and play in the marginalia.
once upon a time relics found at the greatest depth streets conceal enormous and curious creatures in the earth itself some found traces of a ruin, [of] people the relics of recent inhabitants just below the surface last remains that could not possibly have belong to any kind of creature