Outlive The Dinosaur

I breathe, my throat clenches

Clutching to exclude

A dozen different stenches

In Falmouth Bay

A blue whale rolls

Going to drown in the swill

From city sewer holes

Summers longer

Deltas gashed

Ancient trees

Uprooted, smashed

Time is generous more, take more

I must outrun the dinosaur

A silent temple

Marble hard

Decays and softens

Battle scarred

A relic deaf

To bits and streams

And polo necks

And perfect jeans

Obsessed with silence

Spiked by noise

I hold my son

I plan our toys

Time expansive more, take more

I must outlive the dinosaur

Rising rivers

Drown new shoots

Words and breath

In death cahoots

The strong survive

To wean more brutes

Who grow and seed

Extend their roots

Cowards, bombs

And scab recruits

Like monkeys trapped

In monkey suits

Time is plentiful more, take more

I must outfight the dinosaur