Limpets cling to the surface - a cliff, the shore, whale-fall:
the slowly rotting carcass fallen down to the ocean floor.
Once there was a heart and lungs and eyes and more, but now,
2000 metres below sea level the skeleton houses whole ecosystems
and still the limpet won’t let it go.
Limpets will seal themselves shut against the rock
Nothing
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