Brontosaur


Before the caves of Lascaux crude drawings bear
            of the tribal bison hunt,
            brontosaurs people the swamps;
Then glaciers come and glaciers go,
            and man kills off the buffalo,
            and a goat stands grazing in my yard.

Serenely stupid, brontosaurs chomped swamp
            grass while evolution
            raged on the bank;
So too the glazed-eyed goat who notices not
            the sprier cats lurking in the grass,
            hunting dragonflies and lizards.


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