Petrified

Not so many thousand years before

these old rocks were the bones of the haplocanthosaur

Old,

Old rocks

Old

Tall as a house,

gentle as a mouse...

Bare bones are petrified

Later they are classified

A skeleton may indicate,

imagination animates

The mind's eye does need to see

the fluid grace and subtlety

of animals fitted perfectly

to a world not like the one we see

The bones of a flying animal now called the pterosaur

have been found a hundred miles

from the presumed seashore

Old,

Old rocks

Old

One kind had teeth like a whale's

One kind had a hair covering

One kind would've been 37 feet from wing to wing...

Bare bones are petrified

Later they are classified

A skeleton may indicate,

imagination animates

The mind's eye does need to see

the fluid grace and subtlety

of animals fitted perfectly

to a world not like the one we see

Here's the sort of bird that we don't see

In some of the books it's not treated

quite respectfully

Old,

Old rocks

Old,

Old rocks

Has the short end of the stick been given archaeopteryx?