Mawgan Porth Psittacosaurus
(Spotting a strange rocky outcrop on the eastern side of Mawgan Porth beach and other rocks covered by mussels, the shape seemed sculpted into some kind of parrot beaked dinosaur:
a Psittacosaurus perhaps…)
Muscling, crowding in obeisance,
Masses of motionless mussels
Watch as the parrot beaked herbivore
Lurches, hunches and munches
With a grimacing somnolence…
Slouching, glaring in ignorance,
The scaly, feckless lizard
Huddles from the Atlantic’s predatory roar,
Sculpted, weathered but revered
By trembling shellfish in silence…
Pete Ray
October 2017
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