04-19-2021, 09:54 PM
Inconclusive
Through solid stone two sets of tracks extend:
of an apatosaur whose massive feet
left basin-sized depressions where they wend,
another, smaller, clawed, long-striding, fleet
carnivorous pursuer’s. May we say
one hundred million years beyond their age
that they were made the same Jurassic day?
We can, because that raptor in his rage
stepped in and marred those brontosaurus tracks!
How did it end, apatosaur engaged
resisting carnosaurian attacks
or both brought low by muddy tidal wave
which saved their traces to delight a mind?
We don’t know – nature simply didn’t save
this trackway’s end for anyone to find.
Through solid stone two sets of tracks extend:
of an apatosaur whose massive feet
left basin-sized depressions where they wend,
another, smaller, clawed, long-striding, fleet
carnivorous pursuer’s. May we say
one hundred million years beyond their age
that they were made the same Jurassic day?
We can, because that raptor in his rage
stepped in and marred those brontosaurus tracks!
How did it end, apatosaur engaged
resisting carnosaurian attacks
or both brought low by muddy tidal wave
which saved their traces to delight a mind?
We don’t know – nature simply didn’t save
this trackway’s end for anyone to find.
Non-practicing atheist