sutures

I recently found this fawn’s skull while walking through the ravines by my parent’s house.

fawn skull full front

When I picked it up, I was immediately drawn to the cranial sutures:

fawn skull detail

because they reminded me of this fossil, which might be ammonite (?), and which has been in a box in my parents house forever, and which I admired as a child:

puzzle rock

So I put them together on the entryway table, and my mother hasn’t yet said anything about greeting guests with a memento mori.

skull & fossil in entryway

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writer, PhD student in English and creative writing, payer of attention
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