Eggs were in my oatmeal
   this morning when I poured
   hot water from the kettle
   out hatched all the dinosaurs.

They fumbled and they grumbled
   awake from age-long rest
   they climbed great oatmeal mountains
   Stegasaurus and T-Rex.

They were loud and proud and monstrous
   they gave a bellow and a roar
   I found I could not eat them
   and instead led them to my sock drawer.

Now they amble and they ramble
   over hills of cotton cloth
   they roam the folded landscape
   the dinosaurs my oatmeal caught!

Nov. 2009