The guardrail arches its length against the road, a Jurassic spine. Clover has grown thick about its vertebrae where a rotting coon no longer warms the stones it hides, gives its eyes back to the earth.
The Science Creative Quarterly
By sthomassummers
S. Thomas Summers is a teacher of English at Wayne Hills High School in Wayne, NJ. His chapbook \"Death settled well\" won Shadow Poetry\'s 7th Bi-annual Chapbook Competition. Summers\'s poetry has appreared in several literary journals and reviews including MiPo, The English Journal, Pedestal Magazine, and the Loch Raven Review. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and children. He can be reached at scottsummers1@hotmail.com and www.poetry-is.blogspot.com.