http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/ The Poetry of Nicole Nicholson Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/#comment-1217 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:31:53 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=683#comment-1217 I can feel the narrator’s fascination here

]]> http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/#comment-1216 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:24:07 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=683#comment-1216 I really like how the imagination travels here from the bones to the living thing to join with the immense time of earth and fossilization.

]]> http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/#comment-1215 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:03:33 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=683#comment-1215 Nice image at the beginning, “femurs meet like cursed wood to form a cross…”

]]> http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/#comment-1214 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:01:32 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=683#comment-1214 Smooth and flowy. Very well written…

]]> http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/#comment-1213 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:21:25 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=683#comment-1213 Wow. Simple, yet profound. I love your repetition of the word “bones” and I love the flow of your poem as you used a lot of movement imagery such as digging, shifting, dragging, and forming crosses… Wow. <3

]]> http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/09/paleontologist/#comment-1212 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:32:21 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=683#comment-1212 Yeah, I like that, ‘maybe someday they’ll dig me up too.’

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