The extinction of a species once so numerous seemed incredible.

Port your helm!

Use between layers of angel cake or white cake, frost cake a delicate light green, sprinkle with a few fine-cut pistachios.

I'm riddled at the hips and knees, roundsided as parentheses since my shrunken spine has known osteoporosis and my extremities have shriveled into lacy filigrees, breakable as glass on stone.