fossilized 

when two dinosaurs are fossilized together
i am convinced they were gay for each other.
what other kind of love endures the absence 
of bones? i used to think that fossils were bones.
i didn't understand why they couldn't 
just clone them already. yes, i watched
jurassic park. no, i did not learn anything.
i am an unnatural natural person. edit my genes.
make me an iguanodon. we could guard
our eggs from the apocalypse. i hope if
we become fossils that when they find us 
there is some future scientist who discovers
that we were lovers. maybe he'll see my broken
& healed rib. maybe he'll see your crooked 
toe bones. being a poet is not about creating
it is about surfacing. i am a language paleontologist. 
i take my brush to the word, "tomorrow"
& i remove dust until it becomes, "morrow" &
then "furrow" & then ends up as "yesterday." 
we walk backwards towards an answer that 
is not there. at least i love you though. at least
we are the best kind of lizards for this lifetime. 
at least sometimes we get to eat red bean cakes 
while watching tv. when the future bone diggers
stumble upon us we might be monsters to them.
they might re-invent the dragon. they might 
see us, for the first time, as we truly were.
magnificent specimens. our bones that made broth
of the earth, grew the pines & the apple trees. 
i want to be found facing each other. there are
dinosaurs we have like that. mouths open.
mid-shout. time peddling its little bicycle 
towards honey dark. tails full of vertebrae.
their memories like skipped stones in the dirt.