We recently took the kids to a dinosaur dig.
An activity put on by a local community forestry group.
We spent the afternoon outside.
They dug.
They got dirty.
And they discovered a story.
The earth is full of
stories
of creatures long
ago.
Some that roamed on
trunk-like legs,
their gait steadied
and slow.
Others moved much
faster
and chased across
the plains
ostrich-like, they
sprang along
‘til on their prey
they gained.
Sifting through the
dirt
we found more pieces
of the puzzle-
short pointed bones
that could be claws
and some that might
be muzzles.
Carefully we brushed
away
the brownness of the
ground
and searched in
every corner
‘til all the bones
were found.
Jaws with teeth all
flat and w i d e
were placed above a
spine;
tail bones – short
and spiky-
set in a great l o n g line.
Once the feet were
added
we stood and looked
down on
the creature we
discovered-
a story not
foregone.
