by Kaitlyn Spees

“An extremely well-preserved bird feather from the age of dinosaurs has been found inside a fossilized piece of dinosaur poop—revealing how some bird species may have escaped extinction.”
—The New York Times

(With apologies to Dickinson)

“Hope” is an ancient feather—
Encased in dino poop—
Providing Meso researchers—
A welcome—alley-oop—

In sorting out how—feathered birds—
Instead of scaly Saurs
May just have managed to elude—
Extinction’s abattoirs.