STRANDBEEST

Skeleton creatures
magnificent and mystifying
lumber along the beach
propelled by wind and
one man's imagination
prehistoric reminders
they walk upright
and seem to be
as real as us
we stand in awe
held captive by their
eerie strangeness
what are we to think
of such primitive
Star Wars beasts
who come alive
before our very eyes
they will eventually adapt
and live on their own
mechanisms of delight
herds of beasts roaming free
on sand and make believe
wild as the wind
foreboding in their realness.


© d.knape
March 7, 2017

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