With Short-Lived Wings

Someone had spoken and someone had fallen and for an immeasurable moment the child floated freely and for the same amount of time he then lay in the mud Just one second — after another — and a shapeless interval in the earth - The Greek word for mayfly – ephemeroptera – can be divided and translated into with short-lived wings. The oldest fossil found depicting a winged creature is that of a mayfly. More than threehundredmillion years. More than onehundredandninebillionfivehundredmillion days.