World's Largest Insect

Megafauna skeletons in

Endless urban expanse:

Take note of the crown-molding

Teeth tip and flesh-molding

What could have been tyrannical 

Predatory:

Fasteners and power tools

For digestion trash-compactors

God-knows-what for blood

My blood mingles with sidewalk

Fissure dandelion petals —

Pinprick pixels technicolor

Fragments — floral — faded

Bonemeal was fertilizer, 

Construction binder

Rust in acid rain,

Overfolding, crumbling

Calcification processes divesting

Economic avenues,

You can hear the heartbeat slowing

If you press your ear to pavement

Arterial decay,

Subway tunnel collapse kills 27

Megafauna skeletons in

Defunkt museum expanse

Glass bead bombed out

Cat’s-eye detail, silicate violence

Lightning strike over desert

Strikes lightning rod on 27th street

Brings Frankenstein thing to life:

Arterial decay, heart disease death toll

Megalodon teeth and green costume wig

Looks like fossilized maniac

And I wonder if preserved Iceman

Ever murdered anyone

Predatory:

Teeth tip and flesh molding

Torn from megafauna bones,

Delicate proto-linguistic

Affirmations of self

Self-actualized fossilization processes

Defunct detail removed by Janitor

Waxing calcified floor tiles:

Blood showers on hot tin roof

Cain kills Abel to

Tenth Avenue jazz band tune

Blood mingles with sidewalk

Mingles with dandelion

Petals dance in warm spring breeze

This poem was originally published in JAKE. More from them here.