delicate beyond hand made

carefully gouging to enlarge the hole

in the underside of the starfish corpse

one finds that what had made

the rattling noise as the starfish

was shaken are parts of the eating mechanism

of the living organism

teeth? jaw bits? but exquisite

in themselves: angels? doves?

so intricate, delicate, with tiny feathers

or gills that could not be made by

hands—only by Nature