Lizard Brained
You can, if you wish,
watch your thoughts change
into small dinosaur-birds
feathers returning to armored scales;
see the terrible teeth native to the sparrow's beak.
Tucked into small bundles of feathers
a thought reveals thunder lizards struggling for dominion
of the earth once more.
To send a thought out to think for itself
is a kind of archeology, a paleontology
of the present.
Brains see nothing of what is to come,
they recreate what was and make us see
what is hidden in the now.
The brain-fields are still being harvested
by dinosaurs
it's just that the unwary brain feels no pain,
if it did it would scream in its bone cave.
Let a thought fly high enough
then an antediluvian sky will envelope it,
morph it into a mythical creature,
it may return to you
as a dragon seeking your brain
to nest in.
We are a field of seeds
for ripening ancient thoughts,
and the elder world harvests them.
An ancient past hunts us,
it hides itself in the chipmunks trembling heart,
as it digs under the house
for the remains of its existence.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2023
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