Chordata
Pharyngeal slits are embryonic smiles
as we wave our notochords goodbye.
Bilaterally severed, symmetrical and nervous.
Circulatory extractions from bony trunks
trigger synapse shudders inside incomplete
braincases, stacked on vestigial vertebrae.
Burgess shale Pikaia swam as an eel,
Precambrian ancestor, soft-spined leaf.
Nerve-cord dilations, we are future facing.
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