Monday, May 1, 2017

Fossils

Older than books,
than scrolls,

older
than the first
tales told

or the
first words
spoken

are the stories

in forests that
turned to
stone

in ice walls
that trapped the
mammoth

in the long
bones of
dinosaurs--

the fossil
stories that begin
Once upon a time

by Lilian Moore

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