We Found, by Mary McCarthy

We Found
 
two bone flutes
older than our bodies’
deepest memories,
carved when the stars
in their great precession
moved in a different order
across an unfamiliar sky.
Flutes made from
animals so long extinct
we know them only
by their bones.
Flutes used by our most distant
and tangential relatives,
who yet, like us.
in our earliest, our first archaic
shapes
were already making music
in the dark

Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy has always been a writer, but spent most of her working life as a Registered Nurse. She has had many publications in journals, including Earth's Daughters, Caketrain, and The Evening Street Review, among others. She has only recently discovered the vibrant poetry communities on the internet, where there is so much to explore and enjoy.