Library of Life Sciences
-Rattlesnake Review, Issue 22, Summer 2009
We stood with a bottle of bourbon underneath books of botany,
omen-seeking I pulled what I announced to be our new scripture,
titled: The Study of Trees in Winter
We became witnesses to colourless plates of barren trees,
& we searched the captions for prophecies:
A tree thought to be extinct discovered with Jurassic roots.
Soon enough you were threatening the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex,
& I stumbled upon a Triceratops skull warranting worship,
I knelt & prayed for histories & bones & love
Your tauntings I could hear had evolved into Spanish,
I stole your tone to create a rough draft of the dinosaur's missing body—
to this day he stands firm & intimate
We were both inside the barriers, fighting & praying, when they asked us to leave,
this is when I looked to you to be a half-Jesus or a new classification of man,
but you were slowly sobering up to a spirit less askew
