 An asteroid
collided with the earth near Yucatan, forming the Chicxulub Crater and creating a nuclear
winter that some scientists believe destroyed the dinosaurs. |
Green,
green, our world was green,
with palms, lagoons and shallow seas,
teeming with the warmth of all
our saurian fecundity.Dreaming
in the shadowed ferns,
sheltered by their lacework screen,
eyes of silver, blank and cold,
green our flesh, our scales of green.
Green, how much I loved you green.
One bright star where none should be.
Solemn nictitating eyes
watched from darkness warily.
Green, how much our world was green
before the sudden raptor star.
Who knows how it found the home
of fern and frond and hadrosaur.
Hanging in the twilight air,
like a fang beside the moon,
the cold icicle of its light
reflected in the still lagoon.
Out of dark where worlds are born,
brightness none had seen before.
In its steady glare, the trees
spread veils of black lace on the shore.
Cycads in a troubled wind
rustled, restless, and the sky
burst apart, revealing us
to a vast and widening eye.
Then the giant fist of God
descended on our tendriled world;
where it struck, the sky flared into
incandescent emerald.
Brilliant instant, endlessly
prolonged. The trees swayed, serpentine,
green flames wove a spell of fire.
Then darkness.
Green, I loved you green.
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