After “Carbon dioxide addition to coral reef waters suppresses net community calcification”

The skeleton of coral reef, stomping ground, ecosystem, dissolves, and the body, in parcels, frantically ebbs, lost inside its home. Time resolves the body. It takes one thousand years for a parcel of body bound to the ocean conveyor belt to end up back where it started, affixed to the skeleton—arms and legs reattach, fingers fit to fist, but every limb is crossed. This body has traveled tens of thousands of miles, but now it cannot swim.