Eryon

(04/04/2016 National Poetry Month HitRECord Challenge)

- Eryon -
Jurassic - Early Cretaceous

Spiny Lobster of a body
I'll hurt you if you get too close

Five pairs of legs
Normally hidden
Under my carapace

Love me from afar, maybe
Don't love me up close and tender

I'll hurt you
And leave you
In my spiny wake.

- Xystridura -
Middle Cambrian

I lack definition
Fused into fewer segments
than daring Paradoxides

Cowardly I lurk in the seabed
Watching you
Swim away

- Rhizopoterion -
Cretaceous

Silicate,
Glass-reinforced,
Transparently
Alive.

I am the sleeve
And the heart
visible upon it.