Monday, November 6, 2023

Extinction

 acorn lot 

I miss my dinosaurs
reptilian heads, necks 
stretched into horizontal lines
wings pressed against oblong bodies
legs jerked in Jurassic-Parkish dance of
Stutter Step ┃ Hard Halt ┃ Rough Resume 
an Anthropocene Gallimimus
lurching towards its goal
formerly the grass patch
grazing through seed castoffs
beneath the neighbor’s feeder
now abandoned due to an abundant acorn crop
they’ve no need to eat factory-produced
until the oaks perish

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