Dactyl

 

Dinosaur created by Elizabeth Wade

[Dactyl]

 

“Composed in terra dactyls and set in stone”

 

round clumping found humping

thou thumping once whumping

the sound earth

 

breath finding death keeping

feet muscles fleet ankles

hold great girth

 

walk tender slow benders

leave imprints fresh minted

in soft mud

 

clodhoppers gobstoppers

jaw-droppers claws whoppers

in cold blood

 

the -saurus thesaurus

names sources pre-horses

cadavers

 

toes fretted none bettered

soles refilled heels unchilled

with lava

 

charged fractals large dactyls

thy curving keeps serving

museums

 

feet clip-clop neat non-stop

speak thy tines beat off time’s

tediums

 

X thy marks stark pawmarks

extinction distinction

signed hair’s breadth

 

ode on cue owed to you

fast shuttling past scuttling

 writ herewith