Delta Dinosaurs Poem by Barry Middleton

When I saw the black water swamps,
I could believe there were dinosaurs.
Cypress as old as time and lightning
were hidden from the woodsman's saw.
Raptors still soared above, searching
for a glint of silver in the waters.
Surviving reptiles lurked in shadows
in the patient kingdom of infinity.
These were the places where no man
had left his intrusive mark.
From the hills above the town at night,
I still could view the inland sea.
Two hundred miles of darkened delta
held the archeology of timelessness.