"The Fossilot" (A Poem)

The Halloween season supplies ample fodder for playfully macabre poems and Jane Yolen's collection, Best Witches, offers twenty-one spirited verses. Although some are rather serious and contemplative, most, like "The Fossilot," are comical in nature. 

You cannot find a Fossilot
Except in ancient stones,
Where imprints of its teeth and claws
Lie jumbled with its bones.

Some scientists cleaned up the bones,
Arranged, then tried to date them.
But when they had the jaw complete - 
It turned around and ate them.

Works Referenced

Yolen, Jane. "The Fossilot." Best Witches: Poems for Halloween. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. pg. 18.