Pterodactyls Poem by Tan Pratonix

Pterodactyls

Rating: 3.3


Spread-eagled
Under the spreading runway
Pterodactyls struggle to rise.
One day the earth will crack up.

These blunt-nosed
Bleak-eyed blue-winged monsters
Streak into intangibility; stretching…
Strain –
And wings tumbling,
Props whiz,
Wheels spinning,
Stick...
Stick, split.

Out of the mind's fissure shoots
A skin-bone sheet-arm,
Beak breaking…
Back to this horror, this
Madness.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Gina Onyemaechi 20 February 2006

Loud, visual, and explosive image, Tan. Abrupt and somewhat damning in tone ('earth will crack') . Strong writing. 9 fierce marks. Regards, Gina.

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