SANDIA
DINOSAURS
Stone
Age relics lumber to the edge of a desktop zoo, or wander across the floor,
or emerge from trash cans from the rank contamination
of mephitic swamps, peat moss bogs, liana-laden swales, rodent-like
mammals weaving between massive
saurian feet.
We
dream of toying with naturalized
forces of a nervous system rumbling up from Hell's
Canyon, like armor-plated Stegosaurus,
spiked Triceratops, Allosaurus,
Tyrannosaurus rex, charging
our disjunctive lives.
All
species are measured for extinction,
like a heart
set down to cool its core in the athanor
with the daughters of hydrogen
light.
