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On Seeing a Neanderthal in the Natural History Museum

Elliot Greiner 1994 (New Orleans)

Free verse
The bones convene again,
after forty thousand years –
spine straight, knees bent,
fingers curled around a spear –
Resting? aching?
Perhaps anticipating the mammoth across the room,
making clear the old normal,
the moment’s potential
when time was still possible, beating.
 
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Written on 2016

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Scheme ABCDEFGGE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 279
Words 48
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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