upright coral, silver leaf, netted crust, crimped gill
all spotted on a walk through Neandertal – the valley that was (re)named after a 17th century hymnwriter whose grandfather had translated the family name Neumann to the graeco-roman Neander (this was fashionable), that was beloved as a place of sublime inspiration for artists and writers, and that gave its name to Homo neanderthalis after skeletal remains were found in 1856 as limestone quarrying chewed its way through the ancient landscape
endless, endless transformations and cycles