Trilobite

Trilobite is an arthropodologist's delight:
many bizarre creatures; no two alike.

four poems

Chris Mason

DREAM CLASSROOM SHAMBLES

41

Smell   receptors   evolving,

chemically   rich   ocean;

walk,   swim,   breathe,

mad,   stinky,   happy

Dream   classroom   shambles;

educational   officials   observing;

students   slowly   form

circle   tell   feelings

32

Rain   washes   smoky

air;   circle   time

circle  -  happy,   stinky

mad,   stinky,   happy

Olfactory   smell   bulb

next   to   limbic

system   feelings;   air

thick   particulate   matter

OATMEAL STARTS MORNING

41

Seaweed   in   feed

decreases   methane,   cows'

farts   and   burps,

cooling   digestive   Earth

Oatmeal   starts   morning

on   the   table

of   the   master

of   Science   Fiction

32

Oatmeal   good   for

blood   shakes   my

nighttime   stomach,   rough

waves   of   roughage

Eighteenth   Century   English

Leveller   tried   eating

only   grass,   grazing

meadow;   stomach   rebelled

HOMO NALEDI THREE

41

Some   remembering   beings

remember   back   to

early   noticings   of

other   remembering   beings

Homo   Naledi   three

hundred   thousand   years

ago   maybe   buried

dead   drew   lines

32

Whale   stress   hormones

ocean   never   was

so   noisy   far

songs   never   unhearable

Even   Tyrannosaurus   Rex

brain   big   enough

for   complex   social

Tyrannosaurus   group   life

DREAM PARTY AGED

41

Actress   hard-boiled   lesbian

drug-world   detective   radiant

smile   t-shirt   table

arts   high   school

Dream   party   aged

banjo   singer   singing

murder   ballad   songs

old   hope   songs

32

Resting   ears   outside

thrash   music   set

see   parade   violence

interrupters   reclaim   street

Fender   bender   traffic

jam   folk   festival

anger   apology   accepted

fender   bender   solidarity