As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #25.  If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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Rob Sula wrote this poem back in 2002.  Rob as 1st Vice-President from 2008-2014.  The poem is about Essexella asherae, the iconic Mazon Creek cnidarian.  While there was a recent paper about whether it is a jellyfish or a sea anemone, the consensus opinion is that it is a jellyfish.

ODE TO A BLOB    

Oh, lowly blob,
Whose grave I did not rob.

On the ground you sit
So round and nicely split.

Were you but a few.
I’d bend to pick up you.

But alas, you’re not so rare.
And although I wish I’d care,
I left you lying there.

Rob Sula (2002)