dawn frost    the heating on and condensation already formed on the kitchen`s inside glass beginning to slide   trickle in loops spirals   spurs   wriggling forest vines   and a figure between branches   climbing out   coming through hauling himself forward into a clearing I`ve seen him before   imagined him one of the first coming into Europe out…

Charles Darwin    aged 26   feels the crossover tides slip under the cabin floor to the Southern Ocean if only he`d stayed in Good Success Bay not sailed west   set foot on land    he can`t sleep in his journal he records swarms of butterflies blown out to sea Ehrenberg`s paper on phosphorescence…