our tour guide Oliver
pterosaur t-shirt flat-hat time traveller
big boss fossiller
brains like an ossuary
real-time repository
of natural science and palaeontology
uses the tip of his walker’s cane
to draw on the sand and casually explain
how this three-toed boulder
130 million years or older
was once a footprint squelched in mud
baked in the sun, backfilled in a flood
a plus-size, bus-size iguanodon
putting their foot down, carrying on
following the herd along ancient tracks
out to the breeding grounds and back