Jurassic Avenue « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill.
For Josh, Zach, Lucian, the other ghosts, and for all of us still up on two wheels…
June 7, 2012
Jurassic Avenue
So small I am on my bicycle
as behemoths travel beside me.
I braid the halting path of a diplodocus bus
its danger not in malice but mass.
The dull eyes of a charging stegosaurus fail to notice
my vivid display feathers as I wheel past.
An allosaurus pursues, then overtakes me
rumbling its contempt as it chases worthier prey.
I am too small to warrant attention
but if not quick and clever, I may still be crushed.
Fragile as I am
I may not survive this day
But I know
in the hollow spaces of my bones
That one day their kind will be fossils
and my kind will fly.
wonderful!
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