21. Steam shovel

The dinosaurs are not all dead.

I saw one raise its iron head

And watch me walking down the road

Beyond our house today.

Its jaws were dripping with a load

Of earth and grass that it had cropped.

It must have heard me where I stopped,

Snorted white steam my way,

And stretched its long neck out to see,

And chewed, and grinned quite amiably.

                         Charles Malam