A primordial cell
Birthed from a toxic morass
Menaces from the slime

Sulfurous green gases rise
From the fecund waters
Exoskeletal beasts
Rule the aquatic domain

Their grotesque beauty
Slithering towards the evolving shore

Pachydermal rodents
Graze along with mutant marsupials
Anomalies of primates drag their knuckles in the dust

They will one day stand on two legs
And smile with hominid yearning
At the wonder of the sun

– J. Gregory Cisneros