A Saturday drive led us to a roadside attraction–and a poem.
Roadside Attraction
Not to be missed
pepto-pink dinosaur
large enough to house a gift shop
garish T-rex
with a view through
carnivorous teeth
visible from the back seat
on an endless car ride:
the perfect stop.
Who imagined
concrete dinosaurs
as large as life
beckoning
drawing us back
to the land before time
with a perfect robin’s-egg blue sky
and rocky, snow-topped mountains
as the backdrop.
®Douillard
