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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Tue Apr 10, 2018, 10:02 PM Apr 2018

in·ver·te·brate

in·ver·te·brate
inˈvərdəbrət,inˈvərdəbrāt/Submit
noun
plural noun: invertebrates
an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

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in·ver·te·brate (Original Post) Miles Archer Apr 2018 OP

Both are spinless and gutless! democratisphere Apr 2018 #1

Devolution Mme. Defarge Apr 2018 #2

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

1. Both are spinless and gutless!

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 10:16 PM

Apr 2018

So how the hell do they function?!

Mme. Defarge

(8,030 posts)

2. Devolution

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 10:42 PM

Apr 2018

In Rome the scaffolds
of the restoration
form an exoskeleton
around inveterate ruins,
as if this site eternal were
reverting to invertebrate.

Scaffolded spectators
peer through wire rims
(shocked to the marrow,
thinking past sins)
at skulls and femurs
of dead Capuchins.

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