010520d

 

Seating the Teratornis delegation proved problematic, what with their 12-foot wingspans and Catholic appetites.

122420d

 

And In the Post-Human World
 

Somebody cried out

deep in the word

and fell silent

the forest was on the move

the sun rose

on a savanna

large animals browsed

others grazed

there were no dwellings

only the termite mounds

organic towers

and burrow systems

dug by sloths, beavers

small rodents

and innumerable invertebrates

030920

mastodon tooth

in a Black Belt river

elephantine find

100419

The big cat seemed to smile
and one more Pleistocene visitor
realized for a moment
just one moment
how appropriate the Latin name is
for the last, biggest, sabertooth
Smilodon fatalis