Worm Tracks

In Latin, not even
A little one, from not
And the diminutive

Of one, unique—any.
Some of the earliest
Clues to moving life forms

With soft bodies that don’t
Fossilize well are tracks,
Those little wiggle marks

In sediments that turned
To stone. New kinds of tracks
Debut new kinds of worms.

Etymologies track
The wiggles of new ghosts
Squirming to make meaning

Out of signifiers
That escaped, leaving them
Nullus, not any, none.