Fossil - Understanding Life Backward

 Fossil - Understanding Life Backward 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Author's children, Marlo and Anna, at the Dinosaur Exhibit, Manila 1987

Even your tree has been felled,

your phylogeny now a memory;

for your were lost in the current,

in the repetitious mechanism

of the universe,

when one day stood still

while you were acting

in too many parts of the play,

in too long a time.

Your life is twice told,

understanding it backward,

through the art

of marble and mud. ~