Dinosaur Bones

Dinosaur Bones collects poems written by Michael Burke over his career as an acclaimed visual artist. Many of these poems tell a story. “I Made A List” travels from Mabel’s breast to a 10,000-foot-high observatory In Hawaii, to the deepest point in the ocean. A love poem begins on Ninth Avenue and ends in a St. Petersburg concert hall during the summer solstice. Others can be light-hearted and humorous, such as “Caterpillars Don’t Write Poems,” “Beetles Beware,” and “Sex Is Silly.” Others are pr